On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:06:35 -0500, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
2010/1/10 Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
If RALO's can direct how their delegates vote then the processes the RALO uses to decide on which candidate to vote for should be transparent, rules made clear before hand.
Agreed. The proposal is that the Chair of each RALO will have a directed vote -- it is up to each region's RoP whether its ALAC representatives may be directed in the same manner.
One option is to automate the process, so that the preference of the ALSs is submitted directly as a vote without the Chair's intervention. That will work, at least, for a single round.
The option to automate the process and remove the RALO chair ad personam from the voting process altogether would be most welcome. I would further suggest that the vote appears under a generic name (eg 'EURALO_VOTE') and that it should also apply to those RALO-elected ALAC members. The goal here is to depersonalize this step of the voting process. Indeed, these people will not express their personal opinion, but only pass on the vote of their RALO. Actually, we do not even need these people to check the boxes on the voting form. This can be handled by the staff as a purely administrative process. Anything we can do to avoid the perception that the ALSes choice could in any way be filtered by a 'clique' (to use the report's wording) would be most welcome. Patrick