[Chapter-delegates] Board Election

[Vint Cerf]

Abstention is a valid choice and there should be no prejudicial character
to that. It may actually be useful to have a ballot that permits a chapter
to submit a vote that effectively votes for no candidates (my
interpretation of a "blank" ballot). Do others on the list believe that any
significant fraction of non-voting chapters would submit a ballot if this
option were available (versus simply not responding)?

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter,
>
> I hope you didn't interpret my email asking Chapters to vote as
> interfering with the election.  My thinking is that it's important for as
> many chapters as possible to vote in the Board election.  Personally, I
> find it troubling that only half of the chapters (and similar turnout for
> org members) choose to vote.  Hopefully, the turnout will be higher this
> year.
>
> Bob
>
> On Apr 23, 2014, at 11:56 PM, Peter Koch <pk at ISOC.DE> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:35:27PM -0500, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
> >
> >> Vint's question does beg an answer from you. You may decide not to
> >> interfere with the ongoing election process and answer him and Desiree
> in
> >> private, then make your answer public when the polling closes. I don't
> >> think you have a lot more choice.
> >
> > 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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