Re: [council] Re: Suggested election time lines

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for getting the conversation started Stéphane,

Does the second, electronic, option assume that the voters would be the
old Councillors, since the new ones will not be seated until the end of
the AGM?  If so, I would strongly support option 1, to give the
Councillors who will be serving under the chair an opportunity to vote
in the Chair's election.

--Wendy

On 07/13/2011 12:17 PM, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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>
>