[ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Single Transferrable Voting for ARIN Elections

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Fri Jan 21 19:54:17 EST 2022


I will disagree strongly here.

I have, at various times, been the Voting DMR (or whatever it was called at the time) for as many as 5 organizations. All were clients at the time. (The total is well over 5, but the max at one time was 5).

Most of the time, most of the clients instructed me as “use your best judgment, you are more familiar with the parties in question.”. Occasionally, a client would ask for a summary of my views on the candidates and then instruct me how they wanted me to vote.

In all cases, I absolutely voted in the best interest of each client (unless voting according to their specific instructions) with their vote. Most of the time this did not require any split voting. On a few occasions, it did.

Even though I’m not currently voting on behalf of any ARIN members other than myself, I would oppose any effort to eliminate the possibility of contractors voting on behalf of their clients if authorized to do so by said client.

Owen


> On Jan 10, 2022, at 13:01 , Azinger, Marla <Marla.Azinger at FTR.com> wrote:
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> If ARIN is looking for people that actually want to be involved to cast the voting and really care, the votes would best be cast by anything other than a proxy.
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> I find proxy voters don’t always care what the desire of the company is and there is no validation being done they casted votes how the owner of the vote would actually want.
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> I’m not a fan of proxy this day in age.  Proxy to me is a throw back to before online voting occurred. There’s no reason a company cant vote on their own.
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> Marla Azinger | SPVR, IP Management
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> From: Adam Thompson <athompson at merlin.mb.ca> 
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 12:02 PM
> To: Azinger, Marla <Marla.Azinger at FTR.com>; andrew.dul at quark.net; arin-consult at arin.net
> Subject: RE: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Single Transferrable Voting for ARIN Elections
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> Not sure that’s low-hanging fruit, tbh.  Besides MERLIN, I still have voting rights for … 3? local ISPs, who are all aware of that and OK with that.  In any other arena, that’s just holding a proxy vote, which is not a big deal.
> What sort of problems have you seen in this area (that I obviously haven’t)?
> -Adam
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> From: ARIN-consult <arin-consult-bounces at arin.net <mailto:arin-consult-bounces at arin.net>> On Behalf Of Azinger, Marla
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 1:53 PM
> To: andrew.dul at quark.net <mailto:andrew.dul at quark.net>; arin-consult at arin.net <mailto:arin-consult at arin.net>
> Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Single Transferrable Voting for ARIN Elections
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> All of this is gaming no matter how you slice it.
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> Silly me. I looked at the title and thought efforts were under way to stop one person from casting votes for companies they don’t actually work for but I didn’t read that in the write up.  I would have thought we’d start there… if anything needs modification…
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> From: ARIN-consult <arin-consult-bounces at arin.net <mailto:arin-consult-bounces at arin.net>> On Behalf Of Andrew Dul
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> Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Single Transferrable Voting for ARIN Elections
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> Perhaps a simple question, but "how" will the current board insure that future board(s) do not capriciously change the election mechanisms in the future? 
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> Making the changes to the "election process" subject to a majority vote of the membership and having that right inserted into the bylaws might be one method...
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> Thanks,
> Andrew
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> On 1/7/2022 10:31 AM, Peter Harrison wrote:
> Adam,
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> As stated before, it is the Board's fiduciary responsibility to ensure that a change of this magnitude is equitable and not vulnerable to capricious change. We will act appropriately based on this feedback.
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> Peter
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> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 10:03 AM Adam Thompson <athompson at merlin.mb.ca <mailto:athompson at merlin.mb.ca>> wrote:
> Peter, I don’t have a problem with STV.  I do have a problem with the board having the latitude – unfettered – to keep changing voting systems without further bylaw amendments.  The type of voting structure, particularly when deviating from the norm that’s baked into Virginia law, should then be baked into the bylaws so that it can’t change in the middle of the night, perhaps even during an election.
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> Do I trust the current board to not pull stuff like that?  Yeah, probably, I think...  (In fact, can I even name the current board members?  No.  But that’s a different problem.)  Am I willing to blindly trust every future board that might exist?  Absolutely not.  I’ve seen how boards can be co-opted, infiltrated, and/or “turned to the dark side” (so to speak) elsewhere.
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> As far as the consultation’s goal to determine whether STV is OK or not?  Yes, it is good.  This is an excellent move overall.
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> -Adam
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> From: ARIN-consult <arin-consult-bounces at arin.net <mailto:arin-consult-bounces at arin.net>> On Behalf Of Peter Harrison
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> Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Single Transferrable Voting for ARIN Elections
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> Dear Community,
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> With STV there are many ways to re-allocate votes, and new ones may be invented. The videos presented previously illustrated one method. 
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> This link explains some of the options: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting#Comparison_of_ranked_voting_methods <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting*Comparison_of_ranked_voting_methods__;Iw!!M2UytebrhrTR!ZZ9nY7Iqm8q8pZkxsQXDwXKKBYnBxxrhgUQsk72I0lQSknZQozPO16VzGa2rUE66$>
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> We will need to balance the range of options with those provided by current and future vendors of ARIN’s voting systems. Investigations are being made by staff and they will make recommendations to the board based on their research into our needs, best practices, practicability, relative merit, legal implications and systems availability. 
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> The purpose of the consultation is to get a sense of whether this is a good idea overall. The board will work hard to ensure that we are working in the best interest of the members and the region they serve when evaluating the choices presented.
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> As John explained, the bylaw modification was made to accommodate multiple forms of voting that may be required in future. The concern that this could lead to opportunistic changes to systems each election cycle is sound. We will investigate ways to ensure this does not happen with possible bylaw wording to meet these and other goals.
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> The Governance Working Group has worked very closely with both the executive team and staff on this consultation. Their support for a workable solution and concern for the membership has been evident every step of the way. These consultations are the result of over two years of research and were not taken lightly. We will continue to work to maintain this excellent collaboration.
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> Thank you for your feedback.
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> Peter
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