[Chapter-delegates] Board Election

[Christian de Larrinaga]

Vint - I don't know.

However not knowing any candidates means taking on trust recommendations
from those who do and that may limit the pool of an informed and engaged
electorate. 

There is also a bit of a concern this time around to find candidates who
have substantial "chapter" experience - preferably a founder or
certainly an experienced leader.

Although trustees represent all parts of ISOC there is a key priority to
transform the roll of chapters in ISOC. The board needs to have that
maturity of experience of chapters in their midst.

If that doesn't happen in next eighteen to twenty four months then I
worry that ISOC will be seen as promoting a local view globally rather
than as a distributed community around the world that just happens to
have a US registration and HQ.


Christian

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