Thomas, we did make it clear what was wrong and how we would like to see it improved. Look back through this thread for an email for me which was a forwarding of a joint email of the Canadian, NZ, Australian and Portuguese parties.<br>
<br>I'm not specifically asking the current court to be considered void, I want a guarantee that this kind of a fuck up will never occur again.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/3/24 Thomas Bruderer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apophis@apophis.ch">apophis@apophis.ch</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">There are at the moment different discussions all involving the court of arbitration:<br>
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1.) The proceedings in general, yes it was not perfect. Especially the Leading of the second day was very poorly done. I was also very disappointed by his proceedings and the ignorance of proper procedure, however there was no complaint as far as I know which was directed directly at this. It was completly inappropriate that the candidates had no ability to present themselves, and it was done in a hurry. I support the remote voters in that, however on the counting side we really tried to give you all the information we had. The election was ad-hoc, also the parties present have not planned much.<br>
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2.) Remote votes and voting secret: I was counting the votes on site. There was no voting secret for the amandement changes, there was a kind of voting secret for the elctions, and STV was criticised already before. There are pro and cons for open and secret votings. this discussion is interesting in a general sense.<br>
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3.) Cryptopgraphic remote voting: It is possible to make it verifiable AND secret, but its not that easy. We do it in switzerland with our own software (OSS). Every election or vote is a compromise. STV is a compromise. Voting on a paper is a compromise. We need a solution which fits our purpose best. Please consider that the PPI conference is young and everyone involved makes mistakes. Propose better solutions for the future, which are suitable to our case.<br>
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4.) The vote on the court of arbitration shall be void: Sorry, thats not possible. There have been mistakes, and I am sure we could have done it better. Its not like they will do big decision and its not the board. So please calm down. It might be eurocentric, as the whole organisation sometimes is. But it's not bad intention! The Court of arbitration has memebrs from 7 different countries, its a good choice for an arbitration court. Can we settle this without starting a little war. We have better things to do than fighting about the representation in the court. In One year everybody will know that there is a court of arbitration and can prepare their candidates. I am sure everyone will have an equal chance to get elected.<br>
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5.) Other continents: I hope everyone understood that you felt not taken seriously, please make a proposal how to do it better. You are the ones who know how bad it was and what needs to be improved. The PPI can only improve if we know what goes wrong. Mistakes are part of life, lets learn from them.<br>
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And now both sides. Try to imagine the other sides point. The critics are sometimes rather harsh and not to the topic, I know there are personal tensions in PPI, we are not a uniform mass - but to be strong we need to concentrate on the issues, and how to solve them. It's not the time to fight personal wars and blame the rest.<br>
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Andrew: could you live with the current Court of Arbitration? Can we agree that it was not done properly and should have been done differently - but that we should not change an election ex post facto?<br>
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