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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">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?  <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">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...<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks,</div>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Andrew<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/7/2022 10:31 AM, Peter Harrison
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        <div dir="ltr">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
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 10:03
            AM Adam Thompson <<a href="mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca"
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span>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.</span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span>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.</span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span>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.</span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span>-Adam</span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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                      Thompson</span></b><span
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                    Consultant, Infrastructure Services<br>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
                          lang="EN-US"> ARIN-consult <<a
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                          <b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Harrison<br>
                          <b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 7, 2022 11:53 AM<br>
                          <b>To:</b> <a
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                          <b>Subject:</b> Re: [ARIN-consult]
                          Consultation on Implementing Single
                          Transferrable Voting for ARIN Elections</span></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal">Dear Community,</p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">With STV there are many
                          ways to re-allocate votes, and new ones may be
                          invented. The videos presented previously
                          illustrated one method. </span></p>
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                      <p style="margin:0in"><span
                          style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This
                          link explains some of the options:
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting#Comparison_of_ranked_voting_methods"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting#Comparison_of_ranked_voting_methods</a></span></p>
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                      <p style="margin:0in"><span
                          style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">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. </span></p>
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                      <p style="margin:0in"><span
                          style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">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.</span></p>
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                      <p style="margin:0in"><span
                          style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">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.</span></p>
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                      <p style="margin:0in"><span
                          style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">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.</span></p>
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                          style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Thank
                          you for your feedback.</span></p>
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