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On 29 Oct 2021, at 12:19 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" class="">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 4:08 PM John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net" class="">jcurran@arin.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Indeed. About 600 to 700 - it varies by election and we believe encompasses about 1000 organizations total (there’s some consolidation of organizations which makes a precise number difficult)<br class="">
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<div class="">I am not sure if you have an (accurate) number,<br class="">
or are at liberty to share, but how many (actually)<br class="">
unique voters do you have? There are certainly<br class="">
some consulting companies who represent a<br class="">
number of orgs, and are likely to vote consistently<br class="">
across all those orgs (this is not a one person one<br class="">
vote situation, this can be a one consultant,<br class="">
multiple vote situation).<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>That is correct - in fact, there are some voting contacts that represent more than 10 ARIN organizations (e.g. in companies that have multiple business units each with their own ARIN
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<div class="">You can get some idea of voting contacts versus organizations from each year’s election report - e.g. </div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Board Trustees Election - "Number of Voters: 490 (on behalf of 603 ARIN Member organizations) </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> Percentage Voted: 9.3% of total voters (10.6% of total organizations)"</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>(From <a href="https://www.arin.net/announcements/20201103_election/" class="">
https://www.arin.net/announcements/20201103_election/</a>)</div>
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<div class="">Some quick math would suggest that in 2020 there were approximately 5268 voters total (490/9.3%) and 5698 organizations total (603/10.6%) </div>
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<div class="">FYI,</div>
<div class="">/John</div>
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<div class="">John Curran</div>
<div class="">President and CEO</div>
<div class="">American Registry for Internet Numbers</div>
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