[arin-discuss] ARIN Consultation: Changing the Voter Eligibility for ARIN Member Organizations

[John Osmon]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 02:30:51PM -0700, Jim Dolan Jr wrote:
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>    Long way of saying making more people able to vote does not increase
>    participation. I am not in favor of this change. In fact one way to look
>    at a 10 percent voting participation may be that 90 percent are content
>    with how arin is, and do not feel the need to vote to change anything.

There are members who don't vote because they don't think they have
enough info.  I've had such members indicate that they wished they could
delegate such voting to me.

If the goal is to increase voting, allowing this type of proxy would do
that!