Re: [Community-Discuss] Faulty result for Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections

- Candidates with the highest number of votes in each category will be declared winners None of the above was not a candidate Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 2:29 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: ___

Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Faulty result for Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections

All, The election was run and winner declared. Majority of votes cast to have none of the candidates join the board. The AGMM has now closed with no board members being elected. Neither of the losing candidates have challenged the elections, but they are free to do so if they wish. But I

Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Faulty result for Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections

So let us examine what happen a) The two current membre of board had no competition b) Less than 1/3 of membership vote in the election c) The clear winner is "None of the Above" I see two problem Point (b) say that: most member do not care Point (c) clearly send a message: all those that were

Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Faulty result for Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections

"none of the above" is there for a reason, it in itself is an entity. If it was not there what would the purpose of voting be if I did not agree with any of the candidates? It in its self is a "candidate" and it won. It is there for a real reason and is perfectly democratic. How else would you

Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Faulty result for Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections

On Thu, 17 May 2018, 12:15 p.m. Mark Elkins, wrote: > I disagree with your first paragraph. I was a Board Member when "None of > the Above" was introduced. I was also often on NomCom. The simple idea > behind "None of the Above" is simply that - None of the above - that's >

Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Faulty result for Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections

Here is what 9.2 of https://afrinic.net/en/community/elections/bod-election/process full text says: 9.2 Paper Ballot on Election Day The voting conducted during the Annual General Members' Meeting is carried out via paper ballots containing a list of candidate names and a ballot number. Prior to

Re: [Community-Discuss] Faulty result for Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections

Hello Board and Legal Counsel, Good that Omo spotted this. It’s a matter of applying the board election process adopted by the board according to section 13.2 of the bylaws. https://afrinic.net/en/community/elections/bod-election/process describes the process and section 9 spells out how to

Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Faulty result for Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections

I disagree with your first paragraph. I was a Board Member when "None of the Above" was introduced. I was also often on NomCom. The simple idea behind "None of the Above" is simply that - None of the above - that's everyone (natural persons) listed on that ballot. It's not just for the case where

[Community-Discuss] Filling of the casual vacancies

Dear AFRINIC Members and community, The AFRINIC Board hereby calls for expressions of interest from persons who wish to be considered for appointments to fill casual vacancies in the Board, in terms of article 13.14 of the AFRINIC Bylaws. Any appointments to these vacant seats will be for a

[Community-Discuss] Remplissage des vacances occasionnelles

Chers membres et communauté AFRINIC, Le Conseil d’administration d'AFRINIC appelle par la présente à l'expression d'intérêt des personnes souhaitant être prises en considération pour des postes vacants au sein du Conseil, conformément à l'article 13.14 des Statuts AFRINIC. Toute nomination à