Re: [ICANN-EU] Measuring Election Success

[Guenter.Hack@unisg.ch]

Thomas Roessler wrote:

> On 2000-10-11 09:14:00 +0200, Alexander Svensson wrote:

>> Member-nom candidates won in Europe and North America, nom-com
>> candidates won in Africa, Asia/Australia/Pacific and Latin
>> America/Caribbean. But limiting the number of candidates to seven
>> and pre-nominating five of them in Europe obviously made it very
>> hard for potential member-nom candidates.

> I'm not sure about this.  Most important, it concnetrated votes
> "against nomcom" on few candidates.

I agree with Thomas. Another important factor might have been the additional
concentration on the strong German electorate. No wonder that the three German
candidates came out strongest. So "national" and political preferencies had been
bundled.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a "European" Net culture and European
common interest beyond purely technical and financial factors. It would be very
nice if we could activate the European electorate next time so that there are no
more national or even nationalist undertones during the next elections.

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