Re: [ICANN-EU] Electoral Rules

[lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* Christian.Ahlert@sowi.uni-giessen.de wrote:
>May produce interesting results, since actions, as well as the at-
>large-membership itself remains unpredictable, or not?

It will be interesting especially on polarizing candidates. Let's assume,
that Andy's result will be come out in this sense: Andy get 40% of all 1st
votes, due to German voters knowing him, and only below 4th rank from all
other people, due to people not knowing him. So he will probably fail the
election, due to stagnation of his vote count.

So this election scheme will support the least dissenting candidate, which
is clearly different to the nomination scheme searching for the most known
one. This shift of vote interpretation does support the election of a
nom-com candidate. I'm not sure what did happen, if the same scheme was used
for nominating, but I'm pretty sure that a self-nom candidate will run into
problems.