Voting Procedures - Election for the Names Council

Voting rules for the ccTLD Constituency Global Election

11 September 2000

These are the rules for voting.

1. A vote begins when the Independent Teller who is not a candidate, appointed by Administrative Committee, send a ballot.

   • A ballot consists of names of candidates selected in Regional Election.
   • The ballot is secret and shall be answered via email to the Independent Teller.

2. Each vote will be identified by a code known only to the Teller and to the sender of the vote, to whom the Teller will reply quoting the code. The voters will consequently be able to identify that their votes have been properly counted.

3. Each of the following shall be defined as a Geographical Region:

   • Africa
   • Asia-Australia-Pacific
   • Europe
   • Latin American-Caribbean
   • North America

4. Each ccTLD Registry is allowed three votes, one per candidate.

5. The voting rosters will be registered in the voting Registry with full identity prior to voting and will be available at: ../rolls. The voting registry of ccTLD Delegates is kept under the responsibility of the AdCom, and shall reflect the official ICANN/IANA whois database. In case of dispute over who is authorized to vote, the ICANN/IANA whois database prevails.

6. The typical amount of time given to reply to a vote is two weeks.

7. Any vote that is not received by the teller by the specified time will not be counted and the submitter will be informed.

8. Candidates are ranked with votes received. The top three are declared to be selected to the Names Council, the reminding ones are declared Alternates. The Alternates will serve on the Names Council in case of vacancy.

9. In the event of a tied vote, lots shall be drawn.

10. The Teller will announce the result of the Election for the Names Council on http://www.wwtld.org/elections/ web site.