[Chapter-delegates] Board Election

[Carlos A. Afonso]

My quick view on this (btw, the BR chapter already voted :)): if the 
chapters get more involved in the participation processes of ISOC, they 
contribute to more legitimacy for ISOC as a whole, according to the 
mission we all share.

If chapters choose not to participate (either by "blank-voting" or 
ignoring the voting process), this diminishes our involvement and the 
effectiveness of our claims regarding ISOC's policies and procedures. If 
we ignore the opportunity and choose not to participate in the formation 
of the decision-making structures of ISOC, how can we dialogue, make 
claims and eventually criticize them? We could, but with less legitimacy.

My two centavos de Real

fraternal regards

--c.a.

On 04/24/2014 12:31 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:
> 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)?
>
> v
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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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