Voting Report

There were four items to be voted on at the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) May 2020 - three resolutions and the RIPE NCC Executive Board election.

3,551 members registered to vote, and 3,101 members cast their ballots. Not all 3,101 members cast their ballots on all items to be voted on.

Resolutions 1, 2, and 3 needed more than 50% of Yes votes or No votes to be either approved or rejected.

In the election, there were three seats to be filled. A candidate needed more than 50% of votes to be elected to the board. If no candidate received more than 50%, the candidate with the fewest first preference votes was eliminated from the count and their next preference votes transferred to the other candidates. This process was repeated until one of the candidates had more than 50% of the votes. The same system applied for all three seats, with the candidates who won the first and second seat excluded from the count for subsequent seats.

The vote count for the resolutions and the election are recorded below.

The original report from BigPulse is also available.

Verifying your vote

All those who voted received an email receipt allowing them to verify that their vote was recorded correctly. To verify your vote, you will need to use your browser's search engine to find your receipt. There are fewer voting receipts than total votes because some voters represented more than one member and carried the voting rights for these members.

Vote Verification Page

The RIPE NCC and its Executive Board would like to thank all those who participated in the voting process. If you have questions about the process, please contact the GM organisers.

Resolution 1

"The General Meeting adopts the RIPE NCC Financial Report 2019.”


Yes	2,551
No	186
Abstain	364

The resolution was approved.

Resolution 2

"The General Meeting discharges the Executive Board with regard to its actions as they appear from the Annual Report 2019 and Financial Report 2019.”


Yes	2,330
No	229
Abstain	507

The resolution was approved.

Resolution 3

"The General Meeting approves the adoption of the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2021.”


Yes	2,660
No	189
Abstain	208

The resolution was approved.

RIPE NCC Executive Board Election

First Seat


Rank	Candidate	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7	Round 8
1	Christian Kaufmann	847	920	935	998	1,050	1,092	1,211	1,987
2	Maria Häll	655	681	695	785	830	895	1,033	0
3	Raymond Jetten	212	221	233	0	0	0	0	0
4	Elad Cohen	281	281	291	301	0	0	0	0
5	Alireza Ghafarallahi	204	214	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Sergey Myasoedov	379	386	416	425	465	519	0	0
7	Jordi Palet Martinez	229	235	320	345	371	0	0	0
8	William Sylvester	148	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Abstain	80	80	80	80	80	80	80	80
	Transferred votes from eliminated candidates	0	131	166	197	163	161	257	776
	Exhausted ballots	0	17	65	101	239	449	711	968
	Total votes	3,035	3,035	3,035	3,035	3,035	3,035	3,035	3,035
	Quota needed for election	1,477.5	1,477.5	1,477.5	1,477.5	1,477.5	1,477.5	1,477.5	1,477.5

Christian Kaufmann was elected to the first seat.

Second Seat


Rank	Candidate	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5
1	Maria Häll	1,168	1,188	1,282	1,338	1,552
2	Raymond Jetten	282	297	349	359	0
3	Elad Cohen	289	294	302	0	0
4	Alireza Ghafarallahi	209	0	0	0	0
5	Sergey Myasoedov	404	428	467	542	573
6	Jordi Palet Martinez	267	353	367	393	434
7	William Sylvester	228	250	0	0	0
	Abstain	80	80	80	80	80
	Transferred votes from eliminated candidates	0	172	207	167	286
	Exhausted ballots	0	37	80	215	288
	Total votes	2,927	2,927	2,927	2,927	2,927
	Votes for elected candidates not included in the count for this seat	108	108	108	108	108
	Quota needed for election	1,423.5	1,423.5	1,423.5	1,423.5	1,423.5

Maria Häll was elected to the second seat.

Third Seat


Rank	Candidate	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6
1	Raymond Jetten	822	853	884	998	1,181	1,591
2	Elad Cohen	300	305	0	0	0	0
3	Alireza Ghafarallahi	237	0	0	0	0	0
4	Sergey Myasoedov	544	580	639	723	839	0
5	Jordi Palet Martinez	392	483	515	574	0	0
6	William Sylvester	356	381	420	0	0	0
	Abstain	80	80	80	80	80	80
	Transferred votes from eliminated candidates	0	188	161	257	299	410
	Exhausted ballots	0	49	193	356	631	1,060
	Total votes	2,731	2,731	2,731	2,731	2,731	2,731
	Votes for elected candidates not included in the count for this seat	304	304	304	304	304	304
	Quota needed for election	1,325	1,325	1,325	1,325	1,325	1,325

Raymond Jetten was elected to the third seat.