election controversy? - Re: Handover to new PDWG co-chairs [AfriNIC-rpd]

[James Blessing]

On 16/06/2011 03:37, Kris Seeburn wrote:

> This typical case was my apprehension last year with only one candidate
> for elections. We had commonly decided although automatically elected.
> The nomcom then had prefered and certainly i prefered to go by roberts
> rule of order and still gave the voting / deciding part to the community
> as whilst having an automatically elected candidate but the community
> could refute the candidate. We prefered to give the voice to the
> community.And i think the process was much more appreciated than just
> saying we declare elected. But these are different schools of thoughts.
> I guess we have to move and adopt this as a procedure despite one
> candidate situation.

Er, surely the point is that there should be a single procedure that is 
followed no matter how many candidates are put forward and how many are 
being elected to stop this sort of confusion.

J

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