RE: [ga] FW from ncdnhc: GA Chair proposal from Names Council

[R.Gaetano@iaea.org]

Jonathan,

You wrote:
> 
> 	I'm just wondering -- *is* this an improvement over the 
> process we used in
> connection with the BoD candidates?  If we followed that 
> process here, each
> voter would have an unlimited number of votes, with the 
> constraint that the
> voter could cast no more than one vote for any given 
> candidate.  A voter
> could choose either to husband his votes, casting them only for the
> candidate(s) he likes best, or to spread his votes more 
> widely.  It seems
> to me that that approach worked pretty well with the BoD candidates.
> 
> 	It would have at least two specific advantages.  [1] It 
> would be easy to
> administer; the only thing that would need to be verified, 
> with respect to
> any given vote, would be whether the voter is a member of the ga list.
> (That will require checking headers, though, not just return 
> addresses.)
> [2] It would allow nominations and voting to take place 
> simultaneously; we
> wouldn't need to have the list of candidates already 
> assembled before the
> voting begins.  If we want to have a feature promoting geographical
> diversity, we can do it by saying something like, "the top three
> vote-getters go to the NC, *except* that no more than two of 
> them can be
> from a single region . . ." ).
> 

You may be right.
From my part, I was thinking that to give an *unlimited* number of votes to
each member of the list would not be a fair approach.
But it worked reasonably for BoD nomination.

Regards
Roberto