Dear all, First of all, I would like to thank all of you for your settled or situational support. I would like to come back to what it's mean for me and to everybody in EURALO/ALAC/ICANN. Second, I do not see any sense in contiunting of this electoral process. But I have some questions, for which I hope to receive more than one (as usual) answers. Here they are: 1. What is the difference between EURALO Secretariat Election in 2011 (5 voices against 4) and EURALO Secretariat election 2013 (11 voices against 8)? https://community.icann.org/display/EURALO/EURALO+GA+Draft+Summary+Minutes+2... 2. Whose responsibility is to ensure transparency and accountability of any selection and election process? 3. Whose responsibility is to keep an order of selection process (for example, Board selection after EURALO officers elections means that EURALO officers are automatically the members of the Board. If the results of the first election have been changed, how it has to influence on the results of another one?) 4. If discussion of candidates is held in close way, how can they ensure, that there was no false or libel information shared behind their backs? 5. What is the responsibility of officers for defamation or for having some hidden conflict of interests in the process of selection/election? Best regards, Oksana On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Manuel Schneider < manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch> wrote:
Dear Dick, Eric and Wolf,
I personally have no issues with the elections as conducted but I see your points and I share your dedication of doing things right. I also share Wolf's (and I guess also some others') wish to get past this election issue quickly. Obviously these two wishes are contradictionary - either we want to be 120% correct and repeat this election as suggested and having to deal with this issue yet another week (at least, depending when we take this decision and what discussions need to be done beforehand) or we accept the elections as conducted, close this chapter as history and be able to finally continue an ordered business - but leaving a few people with bad feelings behind.
I don't see that we are able to solve this contradiction by sending more e-mails. All arguments have already been made and both sides have some valid points. Therefore I invite all of those who are interested in solving this issue to another phone conference to discuss it in person. If we come to the conclusion that we will repeat the vote it would make it a quicker decision, shortening the whole timeframe we need to deal with this issue.
Please let me know what you think. If we do that I'd like to set up a Doodle poll asap to facilitate a speedy solution.
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