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Topic: Elections
Date: 2000-09-19 18:16:25
Author: Nick Nicholas <nicnic@JustThe.Net>

Question: Do you feel the current processes for nominating and electing At Large directos are adequte? If not, what changes do you propose for future elections?

Nominee Replies
Emerson Tiller, J.D., Ph.D. - posted on 2000-09-25 01:01:51
No, they are not adequate. (1) ICANN should not be able to pre-select candidates for the final ballot through its own nominating committee; (2) The at-large members need an easier and more reliable method to register, endorse, and vote.

Donald Langenberg - posted on 2000-09-24 13:02:39
Sorry, but I don't know enough about the details of the current processes to answer this one.

Harris Miller - posted on 2000-09-23 18:23:59
All involved are working with this process for the first time. I support the decision to study and evaluate the election after its conclusion.

Karl Auerbach - posted on 2000-09-19 21:33:47

The current process is awful.

ICANN's procedures for inter-elector communications and candidate-elector communications are crippling.

The current process does not even meet the minimum standards for corporate elections as required by California law - and ICANN is a California corporation.

My cure (this is a quick list and should hardly be considered complete):
- Follow the election requirements set forth by California law.
- Come up with better registration, communication, and voting software. (The existing registration system is so bad that I hope ICANN refused to pay the invoice from whoever wrote it.)
- Get rid of the nomination committee and allow all candidates to come from the membership.
- Review the report of ICANN's Membership Advisory Committee and pick up all the recommendations that ICANN's board has skipped over. <\P>


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