Spotted this on Lorrie Cranor's e-lection mailing list.... ------- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:32:58 -0500 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Lorrie Faith Cranor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ICANN At-Large Election Study Yesterday I participated in a very interesting roundtable on the ICANN at-large elections. Sponsored by Common Cause and the Center for Democracy and Technology, we discussed the proposed process to elect representatives to the ICANN board from around the world. There are a number of very interesting issues including, how do you identify voters (the plan is to allow any Internet user to register to vote), the logistics of the voting itself, what method should you use (a majoritarian system? a proportional system? an electoral college?), and how does the nominating process work. I'm not sure the panel came up with any definite solutions, but there was certainly a lot of concern about the proposal on the table. The ICANN election has the potential of being a VERY BIG election, as every Internet user may be eligible to vote. It's not clear that there are that many people who know about ICANN or would be interested in voting, but it seems to me a well-planned get-out-the-vote campaign (especially with chain-letter style emails and threats of Internet taxes) has the potential of bringing in hundreds of thousands of voters (or more). See: http://www.commoncause.org/icann/background.htm ====================================================================== This message was distributed through the e-lection mailing list. For info and archives see http://www.research.att.com/~lorrie/voting/ ======================================================================
