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There are some good arguments on both sides; however, I see a pragmatic problem of enforcement. We’re talking 28 countries and in the US/Canada alone you have 60+ jurisdictions all with various employer/contractor law. This is before we start digging into corporate
structures where the current voter is employed by Entity A but is the DMR or whole owned subsidy Entity B and the DMR of a partner company where their employer has a minority stake, etc etc.
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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).</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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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.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Adam Thompson <<a href="mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca" class="" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">athompson@merlin.mb.ca</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
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<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Single Transferrable Voting for ARIN Elections<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" class="">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.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ARIN-consult <<a href="mailto:arin-consult-bounces@arin.net" class="" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">arin-consult-bounces@arin.net</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On
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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…<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" class="">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.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" class="">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.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" class="">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.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<b class=""><span lang="EN-CA" class="" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(68, 84, 106); background-color: white;">Adam Thompson</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" class="" style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(68, 84, 106); background-color: white;"><br class="">
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<b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ARIN-consult <<a href="mailto:arin-consult-bounces@arin.net" target="_blank" class="" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">arin-consult-bounces@arin.net</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On
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<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Single Transferrable Voting for ARIN Elections<span lang="EN-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">With STV there are many ways to re-allocate votes, and new ones may be invented. The videos presented previously illustrated one method. </span><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This link explains some of the options:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting*Comparison_of_ranked_voting_methods__;Iw!!M2UytebrhrTR!ZZ9nY7Iqm8q8pZkxsQXDwXKKBYnBxxrhgUQsk72I0lQSknZQozPO16VzGa2rUE66$" target="_blank" class="" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting#Comparison_of_ranked_voting_methods</a></span><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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