[ICANN-EU] Electoral Rules

[Christian.Ahlert@sowi.uni-giessen.de]

Hi All,

whish to set up a new topic on this list. Perhaps it facilitates some 
seroius thinking about structure that matters rather than childish tit-
for-tat games: 

Soon the election itself will begin. Hence, I looked into the election 
rules today 
http://members.icann.org/rules.html
, because they will strongly determine the outcome. Of course they 
are written in best lawyers-english.

The "Preferential Vote System" will be used, which means that 
participating members can *rank* the candidates, if they whish.
So far so clear, but here it comes:
If no one gets a majority of first-ranked-votes, the least-ranked-
candidate gets eliminated. Then the votes of the eliminated 
candidate get redistributed to the *second ranked candidates*.

If I do understand it correctly: This system helps the second ranked 
candidate, if no clear decision by the electorate is being made.

May produce interesting results, since actions, as well as the at-
large-membership itself remains unpredictable, or not?

Any thoughts on this? 

Best
CH
 
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