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Hank Nussbacher
hank at efes.iucc.ac.il
Sun Sep 6 07:43:36 CEST 2009
At 09:43 05/09/2009 +0200, Daniel Suchy wrote: >Voting on AGM its locked to be on-site at this time, this requires >traveling (mainly) around the Europe, this is a big barrier. According >to Axel Pawlik presentation on last AGM, there never voted more than 5% >of members on-site. This isn't really representative. For comparison, in >online membership survey 2008 we had ansvers from around 11% of members >- this is still not very high number, but is better... > >This is another argument for better interaction with members over >electronic surveys, for example. This will provide much better and more >representative results/feedback compared to NCC meetings. > >Daniel I raised this in June in members-discuss: >To change voting: >http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/articles-association.html#seventeen >we have to go via: >http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/articles-association.html#twenty >and will require 2/3 of those voting to be in favor of the change! In July Axel posted on this list: >The Executive Board concluded that in order to widen participation in >elections, it will propose to allow voting by postal ballot for Executive >Board elections. This addition to the voting process will not require a >major effort or a major investment from the RIPE NCC. and on members-discuss in July I posted in response to Nigel Titley's comments: >>In all seriousness though. If you wish to open a discussion on the >>election process, then this is the list to do it on. Note that the >>current board has taken the step of encouraging the NCC to make >>announcements on this list rather than just making them at general >>meetings. This is in order to encourage open debate. I'm pleased to see >>that this is having some effect. >>... >>>The result is that i have not voted until now, because i don't know >>>anybody and the cost to go to the GM meeting is too high... >>The proxy voting system allows you to vote remotely, but of course if you >>don't know us then, as you say, a vote is pointless. > >How about the matter of electronic voting that I had raised >previously? Why can't that be implemented? > >-Hank and so died the entire discussion thread of online voting. No one from RIPE NCC responded why electronic voting can't be implemented. Draw your own conclusions. -Hank
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