[Chapter-delegates] Board Election

[Joly MacFie]

The election notice sent out to voters specifies:

If, for some reason you wish to abstain, you may do so by sending an email
> to the Elections Committee (election-committee at elists.isoc.org).



On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:53 AM, bukhalidn <bukhalidn at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> Unless if I missed something the online voting tool does not offer the
> equivalent of "blank ballot" vote. I believe that to differentiate between
> lack of interest and abstention, the electronic voting system should
> support
> "blank ballot".
>
> Best regards,
> Nabil
>
>
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> W . Fb . T . L
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chapter-delegates [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org]
> On Behalf Of Peter Koch
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 9:57 AM
> To: ISOC Chapter Delegates
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Board Election
>
>
> on my calendar it's the 24th today. That is 23 days past the first and one
> day left into the voting deadline.  To the latter: I, for one, take the
> liberty to exploit the full extent of the deadline the election committee
> came up with.  I am also extremely sensitive to "public pressure",
> especially when it comes to elections.
> That links to the former: It truly puzzles me to see a request to a chapter
> to justify their vote (to other chapters), even if that is an abstention.
> There are several reasons to abstain and sometimes even a qualified
> abstention might have more value than a ballot cast under "pressure".  I am
> pretty sure that several people on this list who are, sadly, much more
> qualified from personal experience than myself, would be able to share some
> depressing insight. Time to get a globe.
>
> -Peter
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