Re: [ICANN-EU] Measuring Election Success

[Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alexander Svensson wrote:
> First of all, congratulations to Andy -- this really
> is a quite impressive victory!

Yes, and good luck...!

> Then some quick notes based on Rob's notes on
> election success:
[...] 
> 34,305 activated members voted. We are of course left to
> speculated whether the other 41,878 activated members didn't 
> like the nomcom or the member-nom candidates, whether they 
> were unhappy with the procedures or whether they just didn't
> care as much as the voters.

Or whether they gave up after experiencing the problems with the
'system'... Election.com was not working at the start for many
people. It is not difficult to imagine people saying "leave it",
given the number of failures with the running of this election on the
part of ICANN. Half of the people who applied were refused in fact to
participate, as you know. This will hang as a big black cloud over
this whole election.

[...]
> As to the election process: Has
> anyone heard of people boasting to have voted twice or
> the like? (I haven't.)

I have tested that a number of times (also in the final hour), since
the whole election.com system made such a bad impression from the
start. I did not succeed to vote another time. So I think that at
least was working. I was pleasantly surprised for once.

> BTW: The election had been extended until 0:30h GMT to 
> ensure all votes are registered.

The voting server was down approx. an hour (at least) before the
closing. Really DOWN. It came back in the air shortly before midnight
GMT. So they extended it for late voters. One wonders if they have
waited or gave up.

[...]

-- 
Marc Schneiders

"In re tam iusta nulla est deliberatio."
(Acta SS. Mart. Scillitanorum [AD 202])