[council] Re: Suggested election time lines

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Councillors,

As a follow-up to this, please see attached a slightly modified note. The 
change is just to clarify one of the election procedure scenarios.

Thanks,

Stéphane

Attachment: GNSO Council Election Procedures Council Chair seated in Dakar in October 2011v2.doc
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Le 11 juil. 2011 à 17:18, Stéphane Van Gelder a écrit :

> Councillors,
> 
> As the Dakar meeting looms, one of the items we must cover is the elections 
> of the next Council Chair (the VCs are house-specific and therefore do not 
> need to be determined here).
> 
> You will remember that last year's elections gave rise to some debate, and 
> that the Council felt it would be useful to plan ahead a little more for this 
> year.
> 
> To start this process along, I have been working with Glen to produce two 
> possible scenarios for running the elections. These are attached. My thanks 
> to Glen for her hard work on this.
> 
> As you will see from the attached, the options we have looked at are to try 
> and address the wish that was expressed by some last year that it be the new 
> Council that elect the Chair. There are some scheduling issues to address, 
> and if the Council decides to elect its new Chair in Dakar, then we will have 
> to work closely with those SGs electing new Councillors to ensure that those 
> elections are done in plenty of time to allow for the Chair election to 
> happen.
> 
> We also ask the question, if we have an election in Dakar (rather than the 
> 2nd option of an electronic ballot beforehand) of whether the vote should be 
> by open or secret ballot.
> 
> Please let us have your comments on these proposals.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stéphane
> 
> <GNSO Council Election Procedures for the GNSO Council Chair to be seated in 
> Dakar in October 2011.doc>