Re: [council] Re: Suggested election time lines

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

Thanks Wendy for your comments.

Yes that is correct, we designed option 1 to address the points made at the 
previous election and allow for the new Council to elect its Chair.

However, I think it's worth stressing that for this option to be viable, we 
need to be sure that all SGs that are due to replace Councillors will have done 
so in plenty of time for this vote to take place.

So my message was also a request to you, as representatives of your groups, to 
let the Council leadership and secretariat know if your own individual 
elections would be done in time?

Thanks,

Stéphane



Le 13 juil. 2011 à 18:34, Wendy Seltzer a écrit :

> 
> 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>
>> 
>