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Username: rtreitz
Date/Time: Mon, June 5, 2000 at 8:36 AM GMT
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Subject: Threshold question

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> >4.  SELF-NOMINATION SHOULD BE MADE EASIER AND
> >REQUIRE A LOWER THRESHOLD OF SUPPORT. 

No doubt the ICANN board election process is unique in its global approach. But the threshold problem has been solved many times before for a lot of democratic election processes.

Problem 1: The intend is to get a managable number of candidates

Proposal: define a max number of candidates for the election ( e.g. 10 per region )

Problem 2: The candidates should have a reasonable amount of support by the voters.

Proposal: The top 10 will represent the best supported individuals from among all self-nominated. No matter what their number or percentage of support is. To rule out effects in areas with low number of voters, an additional (!) limit of e.g. minimum of 25 supporters should be required.

In addition I really want to support the request for allowing voters to support more than one candidate in the nomination process. That would really implement a two-step nomination / election process. Limiting each supporter to a single support vote means that there is no nomination but a two-stage election process, which is not the original intention of the nomination process.

Regards,
Ralph Treitz
     
     
     

 


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