Re: [ALSC-Forum] Draft report - statistics and "fraud"

[Karl Auerbach]

> >In any reasonable election situation, such irregularities would have been
> >raised in a timely manner - not six months after the fact - so that the
> >candidates and electors could send observers to ascertain that reasonable
> >criteria had been created and applied fairly.
> >
> >	--karl--
>
> Karl - there is plenty of room for criticism of the 2000 At Large
> election cycle, but it should not be directed at Jody Baram

Huh?  I never raised her name or even thought of her.  Since you did bring
it up, when I think of election irregularities, quite another set of names
and faces are seen in my mind's eye.

As was raised in the Mountain View ALSC meeting - there were arbitrary
decisions made in closed rooms about who would be able to vote in the
election.  These decisions were apparently made by people who have
expressed hostility to the at-large concept and the at-large election
process.

It would have cost nearly zero dollars to send out an e-mail to the
candidates so that they could have sent observers in person or
electronically to watch how those irregularities were resolved.

> ... Rather it
> should be directed to the Board members, including myself, who made
> the assumption in Cairo that a well sorted out plan for an indirect
> election could be junked...

Huh?  There was no "well sorted out plan for an indirect election".

The rush of last year's election was a fabrication - there were two years
to prepare for it.  The fact is that ICANN sat on its collective duff and
did its best to forestall the election and thus created a contrived
situation.

ICANN can act quickly when it wants to - one need only look at how quickly
ICANN raced, ignoring every impediment, including the impediment of open
participation, in establishing the UDRP and its complex system of licensed
arbitrators.

The fact that ICANN made back-room decisions were being made about who
could vote is appalling.  The fact that the existance of these decisions
wasn't made public for many months is simply unacceptable.

		--karl--