Re: [atlarge-discuss] Danny's watchdog help

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Danny, Jefsey and all fellow members,

  What is clear are really two things in this whole mess.

1.) That Jefsey, Eric, and Bruce either collaborated off list in setting up
      this contrivance and have insisted incorrectly that they have the
      authority to do so as "Panel" members which they are not as the
      panel no longer legitimately exists.

2.)  That you are correct to a great degree that a straight forward
       election is needed and obviously desired but one that must
       be secure and provide reasonable guarantee's that the privacy
       of the members is paramount.



DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> Jefsey,
>
> You have participated in enough elections to understand that:
>
> 1.  A group of people need to decide upon the final groundrules for an
> election -- in my view, you have unilaterally altered the rules after the
> election has commenced (and without receiving the tacit approval of the other
> Panelists).
>
> 2.  An individual functioning as a Secretariat needs to clearly communicate
> those groundrules to the participants -- in my view, when the election
> announcement refers to seconds, and you later state: "the nominees do not
> need to be seconded", this promotes confusion.
> http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-discuss/0305/msg00048.html
>
> 3.  Watchdogs need to be selected to authenticate the legitimacy of the
> election -- I haven't noted any official watchdogs at work
>
> 4.  The members list needs to be frozen during the election process -- I
> don't know if this was done... it certainly wasn't announced.
>
> 5.  A single transparent/archived list needs to be established to which
> members can post nominations with an accompanying statement -- instead
> nominations seem to have appeared in a number of locales:  this list, Joop's
> website, private correspondence to the "Polling Committee"
>
> 6.  A single transparent/archived list needs to be established to which
> members can post their endorsements (seconds) -- we still don't know who has
> seconded most of these nominations, although it appears that you made a
> private deal with someone to unilaterally second every single nomination:
> "So we compromised; he accepted to nominate the people I would nominate and I
> would second everyone someone else would nominate."
> http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-discuss/0305/msg00203.html
>
> 7.  A minimum threshhold of endorsements should be established to determine
> who has sufficient grassroots support to be considered a viable candidate --
> this has not been done although it is a common procedure in most
> organizations from the GNSO to political parties worldwide.
>
> 8.   Ample time needs to be allowed at each stage of the process -- the
> election schedule did not allow enough time.
>
> I am baffled as to why you and others with sufficient experience have
> mismanaged this election process.  All anyone wants is a clean,
> understandable, straight-forward, monitored election.  People that are
> orchestrating the election should not also be involved in nominating 68
> candidates and seconding every single nomination that comes through.  As an
> election coordinator, you were supposed to remain neutral.
>
> I can only hope that in the soon-to-be-established Charter, the election
> procedures will be unambiguously detailed.
>
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Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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