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RE: [atlarge-discuss] AL001, Vote to choose organization name

Walter & Panel (et al):

[My proactive comments appear here at the top.]

First, I call upon you Walter, and Bruce and Joanna as the "election officers" to each separately publish your vote tally spreadsheets here to this list for us all to see, and by so doing certify the election results to us to the best of your abilities.

I shall even be so "foolish-feeling" as to state what I believe to be the obvious, namely that of course these spreadsheets will be absent any identifying information as to the voters.

Second, I call upon you three as well to provide responses to those of us who would now like to confirm your receipt and disposition of our ballots. Advise us here how those of us interested in doing so may each E-mail you for that information.

This interactive process will of course serve as a debriefing and fine raw material for the WG-ID (& Elections WG).

And third, I wish to congratulate you all on what I trust was an extremely difficult job. Well done.

/s/ Joey

Wednesday, September 25, 2002 * 1:08 PM EDT USA

Walter Schmidt <walts@dorsai.org> wrote ["[atlarge-discuss] AL001, Vote to choose organization name" -- Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:30:44 -0400 (EDT) http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-discuss/0209/msg00528.html]:

Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:30:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Walter Schmidt <walts@dorsai.org>
To: Atlarge Discuss List <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
cc: Walter Schmidt <walts@dorsai.org>
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Subject: AL001, Vote to choose organization name

Many words are said
Some even merit saying
Some said even bloom...
...that said
The ballot, in part stated:
- "The results are due no later than Wednesday September 25, 2002" -
today is Wednesday - it would seem nothing was delayed.
- "Do not edit this ballot" - more than a few were edited, in more than a
few ways, necessitating a detail review of all such ballots, by all of us
- the editing included the changing of one or more of the
selection-of-names to something different.
- "just put a number between square brackets [ ]" - I presume
square-brackets were found to be offensive to some, as they were changed.
- "rank selected names 1 through 5" - again I presume this was found to
be offensive to some as: an X, multiple X, X & ordinal combinations, and
multiple same-ordinal combinations were used.
And, about the ballots:
- Almost 70 bounced/could-not-deliver Mail Delivery Subsystem messages
were received.
- Some received ballots were received having both the name and the email
address NOT on our membership list.
- Some people received two ballots.
- No ballot was discarded no matter which ballot-request was not followed
as long as the ballot's intent could be discerned.
- Again, questionable ballots were reviewed by all of us.
- Almost 170 ballots were received, including one which commented on what
the election was thought to be, but with no name selected.
- More than a few ballots only voted for one or two names.
The final results using the "Preferential" or "Single-Transferable" Voting
System are:
ICANNATLARGE.ORG - 77
ATLARGE.ORG - 62
ICANNAtLarge.org it is...
From my point of view...
We have now "clothesed the Emperor" as we "asked for..."

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