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Voting Report

A voting report from the RIPE NCC General Meeting May 2021.

There were four items to be voted on at the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) May 2021 - three resolutions and the RIPE NCC Executive Board election.

1,681 members registered to vote, and 1,469 members cast their ballots. Not all 1,469 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. Abstentions were noted but did not count towards the overall results.

In the election, there were two 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 both seats, with the candidate who won the first seat excluded from the count for the second seat.

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 2020.”

Yes

1,250 

No

 79

Abstain

 140

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 2020 and Financial Report 2020.”

Yes

 1,162

No

 99

Abstain

 197

The resolution was approved.

Resolution 3

"The General Meeting approves the adoption of the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2022.”

Yes

1,093 

No

 309

Abstain

 53

The resolution was approved.

RIPE NCC Executive Board Election

First Seat

Rank

Candidate

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

1

 Job Snijders  457  526  565  614  854

2

Piotr Strzyżewski  384  397  449  543  0
3 Farzaneh Badiei  224  237  255  0  0

4

Falk von Bornstaedt  140  157  0  0

5

Silvan Gebhardt  133  0  0  0  0
 

Abstain

 99  99 99  99   99
 

Transferred votes from eliminated candidates

0 112 109  143  240
 

Exhausted ballots

 0  21  69  181  484
 

Total votes

 1,437  1,437  1,437  1,437  1,437
 

Quota needed for election

 669  669  669 669   669

Job Snijders was elected to the first seat.

Second Seat

Rank

Candidate

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

1

Piotr Strzyżewski  505 566  706 
2 Farzaneh Badiei  308 347  404

3

Falk von Bornstaedt 232   273

4

Silvan Gebhardt  171
  Abstain 99  99  99 
 

Transferred votes from eliminated candidates

 0 141  197 
 

Exhausted ballots

30   106
 

Total votes

1,315  1,315  1,315 
 

Votes for elected candidates not
included in the count for this seat

 122 122   122
 

Quota needed for election

 608  608  608

Piotr Strzyżewski was elected to the second seat.

10 Mar – Registration open for General Meeting
10 Mar – Open voting registration
10 Mar – Open call for Executive Board Candidate nominations
21 Apr – Publish all GM documents, including Annual Report and Financial Report 2020
28 Apr – Close nomination for EB Elections
3 May – Publish all Executive Board Candidate biographies
5 May – Deadline for proxy vote nominations
5 May – Deadline for members to propose resolutions
5 May – Deadline to publish final GM agenda
12 May – RIPE NCC Open House – Meet the Executive Board Candidates
19 May - Close registration for electronic voting at 16:00 (UTC+2)
19 May - GM begins with main meeting at 18:00 (UTC+2)
21 May - GM closes with announcement of voting results at 10:15 (UTC+2)