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

[R.Gaetano@iaea.org]

Amin,

Patrick wrote:

> 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.
> 


I completely agree.
It would not do any good to Africa to have their representative chosen by
Europeans or Americans.

I rather take the risk of having only the NomCom candidates (one of which I
personally know - he has all my respect) rather than to have the greater
risk of having a well-organized group from abroad decide for you.

Regards
Roberto


> > 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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