Re: [ICANN-EU] FW: S.O.S ===Who will vote for Africa Region Candidate===

[patrick.mayer@gmx.de]

Hi Amin,

> issue. As you may know there are only 153 African ICANN members who
> could
> vote "http://members.icann.org/pubstats.html". Statistically only 50%
> will
> use their votes. My question who will vote for the African candidate?

The rules allow only for members of the African region to endorse an
african candidate. In principle, this rule seems reasonable to me, if one sticks
to the idea of regional voting at all.

> till
> today only 3 members voted to endorse 3 candidates
> http://members.icann.org/nom/cp/AF.html (if you exclude self nomination
> that
> mean no one used his vote yet.).

It's a little (but only slightly) better now, but you're right, of course.
The only way is to mobilize your members.

The problem is more general, if I see it right. All the other regions
(except for Europe, where one candidate has a very good chance to get enough
endorsements) have not reached the minimum number of endorsement for any
candidate. Member nomination might fail in all the other regions, therefore.

> The only way to solve this issue is:
> -Give the others regions members the opportunity to vote for us
> -Or just exclude Africa region from At Large Members voting.

You still have the nomination comittee nominees. Which is really the
second best solution, of course. But I have no solution here.

Kind regards,

Patrick


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