2010/1/10 Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> I'd like to white paper to make clear At Large believes it essential it has
a second Director position, and until such time as there is a second voting Director the liaison should remain.
The scope of the White Paper was intended to be limited to the mechanics of choosing a Director, with the desired result being a process that would be presented to -- and endorsed by -- the Board. The White Paper identified weaknesses in having a single Director but did not engage in direct advocacy for a position that has -- at least for now -- been explicitly rejected by the Board. I agree that the push for second director/liaison still needs to be made, but I'm not sure that a process recommendation is the place to do it. The paper doesn't recommend the size of the slate/number of candidates on
the ballot, but I get the sense it might be quite late (12+) Or am I missing something?
That was explicitly discussed. Under the original process that was developed at the NARALO brainstorm, this might well have been the result. Under the process recommended in the White Paper, the ABSC would be charged with finding qualified candidates and producing a list. No explicit limits have yet been defined, but the White Paper suggests that it should be between two and four for any given election. Once that initial list is released, "petition" candidates that were rejected by the ABSC can be put back on the ballot. While there has been no limit on the number of petition candidates, they will require endorsement by three RALOs so there should not be many added this way. The final recommendation may have explicit limits if we wish.
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. - Evan