Re: [ALSC-Forum] Re: Inconsistency with ALSC recommendations

[Esther Dyson]

My personal opinion is that someone should be allowed to run within 
whatever region she believes she has a chance of being elected. If an Asian 
citizen  resident in Europe (or in Asia, for that matter!) can convince 
Europeans (for example) that he can represent them properly, more power to 
him!

As for voters, residence makes sense, not just for the reasons Mike cites, 
but because it probably makes less difference anyway, statistics being what 
they are.

Esther

At 03:47 PM 10/24/2001, Mike Roberts wrote:

>As a matter of history, I'd like to comment that this topic was the 
>subject of a good deal of discussion by Board members and others in the 
>process of adopting the election rules and related Bylaw language for the 
>2000 election.
>
>The conclusion was based on notions of fairness balanced against 
>workability.  The basic rule is that the purposes of geographic diversity 
>are best served by having candidates be required to be citizens of a 
>country within a defined region.  Since the number of candidates is small, 
>the process of verifying statements of citizenship by examining 
>credentials in the event of any question is manageable by the election 
>committee volunteers.
>
>On the other hand, examining citizenship credentials for a worldwide 
>electorate that could be very large is potentially an expensive and time 
>consuming process.   Neither the time nor the money was available in the 
>2000 election to undertake such a verification.  The decision made in 2000 
>was that in any given country, the number of potential voters who were 
>residents but not citizens was such a small proportion of the total that 
>it would not likely affect the outcome of the vote.   Therefore, the 
>postal mail distribution of pins required for authentication would also 
>establish residency to a reasonable degree of accuracy and the procedure 
>was adopted.
>
>Presumably, the ALSO and its election committee, when established, will 
>revisit this type of tradeoff in light of the procedures it chooses to 
>adopt and the related budget considerations.  The ALSC recommendation for 
>a regionally based ALSO will also assist in dealing with this issue.
>
>- Mike
>
>
>
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>At 14:02 -0400 10/24/01, Joanna Lane wrote:
>>The region for which an ICANN Board candidate may stand is determined by
>>citizenship of the individual, whereas the electorate for each At Large
>>region is determined by residency of the individual.
>>
>>Problem: Vast numbers of the world's population hold citizenship for one
>>region while residing in another. Under the current Bylaws, this means that
>>an individual domain name holder is not eligible to vote in the same region
>>for which they may stand for election.
>>
>>Comments from the ALSC please?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Joanna
>>
>>
>>
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