Jason,
As your email appears to be based on a gross misunderstanding or failure to understand what it clearly states, I am going to keep this as short as possible.
Only the three existing EC members have their names prominently listed with one click through to their biographies.
Just to clarify things for you as well as anyone else who may be misguided by your remarks, the page reads (directly above the three names you reference I might add):
The EC members whose terms are expiring (and eligible for re-election) are
And then goes on to list whose seats are up for election, or re-election if the members wish to run again. To call out the Secretariat for bias in favour of the three people listed is deplorable.
The voting system is outsourced to BigPulse in order to maintain complete transparency and anonymity regarding who has voted for who. The Secretariat do not see who has voted for who and BigPulse is integrated with MyAPNIC for the purposes of identifying who has or has not voted only (to prevent members from voting multiple times). The reason the election had to be reset was because it allowed for four candidates to be selected instead of three, which would have been a technical misconfiguration.
The "restrictions" that you speak of are not restrictions in the sense that they prohibit candidates, rather they are a set of eligibility criteria that determine whether or not a candidate is eligible to run for a seat on the Executive Council. Some of these requirements are administrative requirements (such as an EC member must be able to apply for a DirectorID under Australian law) and some of them voted on by members (e.g. multiple candidates from the same corporate group not being able to hold multiple seats). An overwhelming number of the votes cast by members were in favour of these changes which clearly demonstrates a bottom-up approach, something which the NRS claims they advocate for.
For the 2025 elections, I suggest that APNIC enroll on election awareness training programme so that they understand how to run a free and fair election properly.
APNIC has been running elections for as long as I can remember. I don't see a need for the Secretariat to undertake "election awareness training".
By referring to what you've discussed as "serious problems about election awareness" very clearly demonstrates that either (a) you fail to understand how the system works, (b) you chose to ignore what the page reads, (c) attempting to disseminate intentional false and misleading information regarding the elections which is a common rhetoric coming from the NRS or (d) all of the above.
Regards,
Christopher Hawker
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