[Chapter-delegates] Board Election

[Eric Burger]

There is an even better method of conveying your belief the nominating committee did not do a good job. One is always able to put forward additional nominees. It only takes seven endorsements to have that nominee placed on the ballot. This provision has been available for years and  nominees have been placed on the ballot in the past.

Waiting until the election is over to say the candidate pool was not to one’s liking is not effective. Finding a qualified candidate the nominating committee missed, getting them to understand the commitment, getting them to agree to run, and getting 7% of the chapters to endorse the candidate is much better. Not only does it show where the nominations committee could do better, you also end up with a candidate to your liking.

On Apr 27, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Mark Urban <docurban at gmail.com> wrote:

> I concur with Vint.  A "none of the above" choice is crucial as an option to convey to the nominating committee that the choices provided are not the direction desired.
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> Mark D. Urban
> Vice-Chair, Disabilities and Special Needs Chapter
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> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:53 AM, jemal <jemal at mattel.mr> wrote:
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> I Think , the Abstention is a good part of democratic election that give anybody to vote as he want and do his choice without any pressure from anybody .
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> I agree this blank vote that Vince as said.
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> Jemal Brahim
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> Mauritanian chapter
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> De : Chapter-delegates [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] De la part de Vint Cerf
> Envoyé : jeudi 24 avril 2014 15:31
> À : Bob Hinden
> Cc : ISOC Chapter Delegates; Peter Koch
> Objet : Re: [Chapter-delegates] Board Election
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> On Apr 23, 2014, at 11:56 PM, Peter Koch <pk at ISOC.DE> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:35:27PM -0500, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> > 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.
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> > -Peter
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