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Re: [council] Re: Suggested election time lines
NCSG is also working on its Council elections.
A third option would be to postpone our Council elections (and briefly
extend the terms of current officers) if some SGs need a slightly longer
window to complete their Councillor elections first.
--Wendy
On 07/14/2011 07:52 AM, Stéphane Van Gelder wrote:
> 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,
>>>>A t
>>>> 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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