AW: [gnso-osc-ops] GCOT Documents: Voting, Term Limits, and Absences

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Thanks, Ken.
 
I don't feel comfortable with the modified 4.4.1 leaving it up to the Chair / 
VCs to "grant" an opportunity for absentee voting. What in case if they don't 
find consensus on that? I'd rather prefer to allow absentee voting in any case 
- iterative voting seems a bit artificial - or keep it restricted to the cases 
as before.
The other modofications of Chapter 4 are ok to me.
 
Section 2.1 - Council member term limits: agreed
 
Section 3.8 - Absences and vacancies: separate comment shall follow
 



Regards 
Wolf-Ulrich 

 



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Auftrag von Ken Bour
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. März 2010 23:32
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Betreff: [gnso-osc-ops] GCOT Documents: Voting, Term Limits, and Absences



GCOT:

 

I have modified three documents and present them to the Work Team for review.   
 I suggest taking them up in the order presented below...  

 

1)      Section 2.1-Council Member Term Limits

a)      Changes to 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 per GCOT's teleconference on 24 March 
(redlined).

2)      Chapter 4-Voting  [Revised 24 March 2010 and marked as OSC Version #2]  

a)      4.3-Motions and Votes:  added language to clarify that a 
reason/explanation may be provided when entering Y and N votes in addition to 
abstentions when it is always required.   This matter was raised by Steve 
Metalitz at the OSC meeting in Nairobi.  

b)     Section 4.4-Absentee Voting:  replacement language to permit alternate 
voting mechanisms (e.g. electronic) when approved by the Chair and ratified by 
all Vice-Chairs present.  

c)      Section 4.5-Abstentions:  added a new clause (see 4.5.3-c-vi) that 
occurred to me when writing the Absences material (below).   A Temporary 
Alternate, if/when it affects a Council officer (e.g. Chair or Vice-Chair), 
should not imply that the TA assumes that officer's responsibilities.   I 
wanted to make that explicit to avoid any potential confusion.  

3)      Section 3.8-Absences and Vacancies

a)      Complete replacement for the original 3.8 to include handling:  
incidental absences, leaves of absence (planned and unplanned), and vacancies.  
 The vacancies material was drafted in response to Steve Metalitz' question at 
the Nairobi OSC session as to whether a vacancy would result in a reduction to 
the voting denominator.   The procedures were previously silent on that matter, 
so I thought it should be addressed.   

 

Note:  the above revisions have not been reviewed by Legal.  

 

Please let me know if there is anything else that I can do to assist the GCOT 
in completing these remaining sections.  

 

Ken Bour

 

P.S.  I will begin drafting the generalized Board Seat Elections material which 
will go into Section 2.4 of the GOP replacing Annex 1.