[voters] Basic outline for election of the GA delegate to the NC Review TF

[DNSO Secretariat <DNSO.Secretariat@dnso.org>]

This is a BASIC OUTLINE OF THE ELECTION PROCESS.
This is not a ballot -- ballots will arrive shortly.


[ cf. http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2001.GA-b06-outline.html ]

ICANN/DNSO

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                           DNSO General Assembly
                    Basic outline of the election process
  b06, Vote by the GA to designate its representative to the Names Council
                             Review Task Force

3 July 2001

BASIC OUTLINE OF THE ELECTION PROCESS, b06, Vote by the GA to designate its
representative to the Names Council Review Task Force

  1. A ballot is prepared.

     A ballot starts with line "BEGIN" and ends with line "END__".

     It is like this:

     REQUEST: Please mark a preference, using '1' for the most favored
     REQUEST: candidate, '2' for the second, and so on.
     REQUEST: There is no requirement to mark all names.
     REQUEST: This ballot is From: 'gavote@dnso.org' -- please reply without CC
              to any list.
     IMPORTANT: Please do not strip ballot,
     IMPORTANT: it  MUST start with line BEGIN:
     IMPORTANT: it  MUST end   with line END__:.
     IMPORTANT: and MUST contain all lines in between.

      BEGIN:b06:KabcdZ:FirstName_LastName:email@address.somewhere:SVP-reply
      b06:KabcdZ:[ ] David Farrar
      b06:KabcdZ:[ ] Eric Dierker
      b06:KabcdZ:[ ] Joop Teernstra
      b06:KabcdZ:[ ] Kent Crispin
      b06:KabcdZ:[ ] Roberto Gaetano
      END__:b06:KabcdZ:FirstName_LastName:email@address.somewhere:SVP-reply

  2. Ballot is assigned a number (first field in a line), here "b06" --
     ballot number 06 (it is the sixth ballot submitted to the GA vote since
     January 2000).

  3. Ballot is personalised. Each line indicates who is voting.

  4. The second field, here between "b06" and "FirstName_LastName", indicate
     a personalised code given for this ballot to this person. A
     personalised code is 6 caracteres, starting with "K", ending with "Z",
     here "KabcdZ".

  5. Do not edit a ballot. Just put a number between square brackets [ ] to
     rank candidates.

     You cast one vote, no more.

  6. A ballot will arrive From: "gavote@dnso.org" -- please reply without CC
     to any list.

  7. You will receive an aknowledge of your ballot within 48 hours.

  8. "Election Rules for the DNSO GA V0.2" approved on 23 March 2001
     http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2001.GA-chair-election-rules-v0.2.html

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               Information from:© DNSO GA's Chair