Re: AW: [council] Re: Suggested election time lines

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

Thanks Wolf.

Stéphane



Le 14 juil. 2011 à 16:23, <KnobenW@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> You're right, Stéphane. It's in the ISPCP pipe already in order to cope with 
> this timeline. 
> 
> 
> Kind regards
> Wolf-Ulrich 
> 
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im 
> Auftrag von Stéphane Van Gelder
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Juli 2011 13:52
> An: Wendy Seltzer
> Cc: Council GNSO
> Betreff: Re: [council] Re: Suggested election time lines
> 
> 
> 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>
>>> 
>> 
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