[Community-Discuss] 2019 Board Elections: Fix against having sole candidates WAS Re: AFRINIC Borad Elections

[Sylvain BAYA]

Hi all,

Comments inline, please.

Le 7/4/2019 à 10:49 PM, Noah a écrit :
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> On Fri, 5 Jul 2019, 00:31 Sylvain BAYA, <abscoco at gmail.com
> <mailto:abscoco at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Is there a particular, written, ethic to avoid unwanted situations ?
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> There are existing guidelines and bylaws.


Thanks Noah, i mean particulary a rule which could help to fairly
address the new "issue"
raised by some ones onlist.

...i went through this document [1] and i see that only the section 6
provides information
about what can be called election campaign (so, to be added ?).


> We have had situations where two or more candidates on a slate were
> rejected in past elections rendering the seat empty with the board
> going on appointing volunteers to fill the space.
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> We recently had cases of one/solo candidate and they got elected. If
> they were to be rejected, the bylaws empower the board to again
> appoint or the incumbent continue serving but only if they were not
> candidates for reelection.

Yes, i'm already aware of these cases.

> How this part of the elections process can be also improved ?
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> Nomcom guidelines could perhaps allow for a minimum of three candidates.

...possible way to go, but my question was a bit off-topic :-/

I think, there is some need to somewhat clearly define how candidates
should organize
their elections campaign. Something like an election campaign ethical
guidelines :-/

I went, also, through this Nomcom guidelines [2] then i have seen no
such a provision.
If the community agrees with the idea, the BoD could add some specific
guidelines,
about election campaign ethic, in section 6 of the BoD Election Process
and Guidelines [1].

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[1]: Board of Directors (BoD) Election Process and Guidelines (20181126)
<https://afrinic.net/election-process/board/20181126>

[2]: AFRINIC Guidelines for ad hocNomCom for Board seat 2 election,May 2018
<https://www.afrinic.net/ast/pdf/201804-afrinic-adhoc-gomcom-guidelines.pdf>


Shalom,

--sb.


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> Noah
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>     Thanks & Shalom,
>     --sb.
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Regards,
Sylvain B.
<http://www.chretiennement.org> 
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Website : <https://www.cmnog.cm>

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