----- Original Message ----- From: "Einar Stefferud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IFWP] Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] HP/Compaq vote and .org reassignment
> Do we need a sanction from anyone to run such an election? > > If the voter EMail addresses are openly available, it should be easy > enough to issue a voter ID (DVC) to each and let them vote via the > Internet. > > See <http://mysafevote.com/> > > Perhaps IFWPlist would like to give it a try for IFWP subscribers? > It would seem that you first need a ballot, or slate of candidates. Then, you are not running an election but more of a straw-poll. In order to assemble a slate of candidates, you would likely have to go through the expensive ICANN screening process, where Arthur Andersen decides if the candidates have enough money and the ICANN legal staff gets their fees for making sure the candidates meet all of the criteria they set up. Then you have to allow enough time to have the I* society insiders jockey to get on the payrolls of the candidates. At that point you are ready for the big vote. If the straw-poll turns out to the liking of the 15 hand-selected insiders, they will of course declare their agreement. If not, then they will do the ".WEB shuffle" and claim to be doing everyone a favor by waiting until the next round (which never comes) when there is more consensus. While all of this is going on, the candidates (unlike individuals) of course can reorganize and completely change the companies involved. Once that happens, then your straw-poll candidate can be declared the winner, and it will be the same I* society insiders who have moved behind the scenes to sit in the winner's seat. You are dealing with a group of people who swim at the shallow end of the ethical gene pool. Go ahead and vote, poll, etc. and watch the swamp 32-bit DNS swamp churn under your feet..... -- JF
