[ICANN-EU] (Fwd) Note on election tallying procedures

["Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette@medea.wz-berlin.de>]

Hi, these are the most recent & specific details on the election procedure.

jeanette

P.S. I am quite relieved about our rough consensus ;-)


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From:           	"Andrew McLaughlin" <mclaughlin@pobox.com>
To:             	<atlarge@icann.org>
Subject:        	Note on election tallying procedures
Date sent:      	Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:43:12 -0700

To the At Large Nominees:

Hi!  Here is a quick update on today's voting and tallying process.  Voting
seems to be going smoothly.  The election.com team is working hard to answer
queries and help last-minute voters successfully cast their votes.

1.  Schedule

The close of voting will be midnight GMT/UTC.  That's 8pm in New York, where
election.com is located.  After the close of voting, the votes will be tallied
by region, and posted on the election.com site.  ICANN will post a link to the
results on our site.  We've asked election.com to post as much statistical
detail as possible, such as round-by-round results in regions where no 
nominee
gets 50% of the first-place preferences.

All in all, the process should be completed within a few hours.  We'll send you
an email with the results as soon as their posted.

2.  Rules

The rules for the tallying process are posted at
<http://members.icann.org/rules.html> -- see particularly Voting Phase rules 1
and 2.

3.  Monitoring and Oversight

Chuck Costello and Yawei Liu of the Carter Center's Democracy Program will
be present at election.com's offices today to monitor the voting and
tallying process.  They have been watching the process closely, and will be
issuing their statement following the announcement of the result.  Chuck will be
the designated coin-flipper, in the event of any ties that cannot be resolved as
set forth in the rules.

In addition, we have invited a number of reporters to come to election.com
today to observe and inquire.

4.  Q&A Forum

It may take us until tomorrow to shut down the Q&A Forum, which will be
preserved as an archive on the At Large site.  Once voting has closed,
please do not log in to respond to any further questions.

5.  Post-election study

I hope you've all started thinking about how the post-election study should be
handled, and about what changes should be considered.  Personally, I've got a
long list of things I'd like to do differently next time around.  I'm generally
satisfied with the process, given our resource constraints and original goals
and expectations, but I think we've learned a lot.

Thanks to all of you for participating in this interesting experiment!

--Andrew

PS - If you want to reach me in the next few hours, I'm at the ICANN office
(+1-310-823-9358).


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