Election process (was re: [rpd] AFRINIC Board Elections - 2014: Call for Nominations)

[Seun Ojedeji]

You got into the party when we all have had a fair share of the drinks ;)

The drunken part of me is therefore agreeing that the only fix is to go
electronic 100%. However the conscious part of me still thinks it's not
good ethics to have a voting means shutdown before the other for the same
election.

In view of this, I will suggest that while closing of online voting is done
a day before AGM, it's actual unlocking/counting of votes should be done
same time with counting of paper based. This means that as staff clear a
member for online voting such member is struck out from the members list.

Hope this is an acceptable compromise otherwise I am open to why this isn't.

Regards

sent from Google nexus 4
kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 9 May 2014 15:16, "Douglas Onyango" <ondouglas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Seun, et al,
> Sorry I am joining the party  late, but given my experience on the
> Nomcom, my few cents are inline:
>
> On 8 May 2014 09:05, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:
> > - The electronic voting is starting before getting the opportunity to
> hear
> > from the contestants. In view of this, does it mean
> > 1. There will be no time when the contestant will speak to the community
> > (i.e the only information posted on the website is what will be used for
> > both at online and f2f voting)
>
> My recollection is that the comment period, and the feedback form
> specifically is designed to allow pre-f2f online engagement . It is
> Nomcom's expectation that by the time of the f2f, the electorate
> should have interacted via this platform to form an opinion on the
> candidate. It is also for this reason that the speech at the f2f is
> trimmed to a minuscule 2 or so minutes.
>
> > 2. The speech of the contestants will be uploaded before the electronic
> > voting starts and further speaking opportunity awarded to contestants
> > present at f2f
>
> In the past, recorded speeches have only been for candidates who are
> not at the f2f in person and as such this is not available to the
> public until the other candidates are speaking -- typically minutes
> from the voting.
>
> > - The closing date for the online voting has been set to end before f2f;
> as
> > mentioned in the last AGM why does the online voting have to close
> earlier
> > than the f2f voting?
>
> The online vote has to be tallied and our current procedure specifies
> that the tallying happens before the elections which makes sense if
> you asked me because three trustees have to unlock the votes with
> their private keys around the same time. Leaving this until the paper
> ballot is tempting fate: Internet connectivity or one of the trustees
> may just not be present. This can jeopardize the entire exercise as
> there might not be enough time to fix the issue.
>
> On 8 May 2014 14:48, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If I recall correctly, there is only one person (the CEO) who is able
> > to obtain the results
> > of the e-vote and he does this just before the f2f vote.
>
> Not entirely accurate. The online voting system is designed such that
> the result is unlocked and tallied by three trustees. These
> individuals have to validate the result and as such have knowledge of
> it.
>
> Regards,
>
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