Dear Members, The North American community is entitled to an explanation of the voting results for our region that saw a supplier-side registrar representative elected whose name was never once introduced for candidacy on the NARALO discussion list. The minutes of the last ALAC meeting state: "It was decided that the RALOs would provide their advice and recommendations by the end of this week (NLT 16st September). There would then be a vote online using instant runoff for the candidates of each region wherever there is more than one candidate proposed from a region." The North American region advanced three names: Eric Dierker (confirmed), Michael Geist (at last report was "pending confirmation", and Evan Leibovitch (confirmed). The current NARALO Wiki contains only two names: Hugh Dierker [USA] current chair of the GNSO's General Assembly Proposed by Danny Younger Confirmed Evan Leibovich [Canada] ALS Representative, CLUE (Canada) Proposed by Beau & Robert Confirmed https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?na_nominating_committee_candidates_200... You will note that Ross Rader's name is not mentioned therein, yet suddenly he has been elected without member ALSs and North American individual participants in the RALO even being aware of his candidacy. Further, voting results show that Eric Dierker's name was never even voted upon, notwithstanding the fact that his bio/credentials were submitted for review. I find: (1) the opaqueness of this process outrageously disturbing, (2) the voting process that saw candidates having their names not included as perverse in the extreme, (3) the result (the election of registry and registrar representatives instead of user representatives) as a vile and deplorable abuse of trust I, and likely the Ombudsman as well, await an explanation. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/