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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 .

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

7

Jordi Palet Martinez 229

 235

320 

 345

371 

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

3

Elad Cohen  289 294  302 

4

Alireza Ghafarallahi  209

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

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.

26 Feb - Call for nominations to RIPE NCC Executive Board
26 Feb - Open registration for General Meeting
15 Apr - Publish RIPE NCC Annual Report and Financial Report 2019
22 Apr - Close nominations for Executive Board elections
29 Apr - Deadline for proxy vote nominations
29 Apr - Deadline for members to propose resolutions
29 Apr - Deadline to publish final GM agenda
13 May - Close registration for electronic voting
13 May - GM begins with main meeting
15 May - GM closes with announcement of voting results