It is an interesting approach, however, I would suggest that changing the way that votes are to be counted in the middle of the vote - as a procedure - would be at best very highly irregular. Since a number of votes have already been cast, on the natural and published assumption that the votes would be counted in the normal way, I would have to say that insisting on counting in a different way such as has been proposed would invalidate the current votes, and require a re-vote. I hope very much to be frank that we can avoid doing that - and reiterate my previous suggestion that the EURALO needs urgently to turn to discussing and agreeing Rules of Procedure for its work so that the way in which decisions are made can be less contentious, and not inadvertently contain procedural innovations which I think any outside party who has worked in international relations would see as, at best, very questionable. On 18/05/07, Roberto Gaetano <roberto@icann.org> wrote:

Interesting approach. I personally like it (but I am not a voting member).

I assume that we are all aware of the fact that in this case the option that has the relative majority might not be the winner. For instance, having 17 votes, we might have:

5 - 3 votes 7 - 3 votes 9 - 3 votes all - 8 votes

and the winner will be 9 (not all). Similarly, if we have:

5 - 8 votes 7 - 3 votes 9 - 3 votes all - 3 votes

the winner will be 7 (not 5). This has the advantage of favouring the central area of the spectrum, minimizing the global unhappiness instead of maximizing the local happiness.

It is worthed noting that if you start from the other end, i.e. from 5, and go up, stopping when you have the majority of the valid votes, you will end at the same point (if my maths are correct).

Cheers, Roberto

________________________________ From: euro-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:euro-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Christoph Bruch Sent: 18 May 2007 21:00 To: 'Discussion for At-Large Europe' Subject: [EURO-Discuss] Vote for EURALO board size

Dear all,

I was asked by several people how we would count the votes for the size of the EURALO board.

According to my understanding we start with the "include all" option.

If this option does not reach the majority, these votes will be added to the "membership of 9" votes.

If this option does not reach the majority, these votes will be added to the "membership of 7" votes. ...

Christoph

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