LACRALO Operating Principles. Updated in March 4, 2009 by the LACRALO General Assembly held during the ICANN meeting in Mexico
- Article 8. The LACRALO shall elect two (2) individual to serve as representatives before the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) on the terms specified in the ICANN By-Laws. Only those ALSs that have beenaccredited prior to the election shall be entitled to vote in the election.
Each accredited ALS shall be entitled to one vote. The selected representatives shall be members of various ALSs, have their main places of residence in countries of the region, and their nationalities must be distinct. The representatives shall be responsible for the duties stipulated by the ICANN By-Laws.
In the case of the election, the affiliation, residency and nationality shall also be taken into account with respect to the person acting as a representative vis-Ã -vis the ALAC on behalf of the LAC appointed by the NOMCOM.
Please note that the rules above work/are interpreted with the following:
ORDINARY RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR MEETINGS OF DELIBERATIVE BODIES OF THE COMMUNITY
These Rules of Procedure were adopted by the LACRALO on June 24th 2007. Doc AL/2007/SD/2.Rev1. See Comparative version RoP English / Spanish approved in June 2014. Versión comparada RoP Inglés / Español aprobada junio 2014
- Rule 12 - Voting
12.9 The number of votes cast for or against any motion shall be limited by the following calculation with respect to any Assembly that is international in nature:
a) The number of countries or territories covered by the entire membership of the Assembly shall form the numerator.
b) The denominator shall be 100.
c) The result of the division of (a)/ (b) shall be multiplied by 100.
d) The result of 12.9(c) shall be known as the Maximum Percentage.
e) The votes cast by delegates representing ALSes normally domiciled in any one
Country may not in the aggregate exceed the Maximum Percentage. This calculation shall be separately applied to votes for and against any motion.
. - According to Article 12.2 of the Rules of Procedures and “according with that established in Rules 6.2 the resolutions will be decided by the majority of ALS present and voting; for purposes of these rules, the sentence “ ALS present and voting” refers to the ALS issuing a negative or positive vote. ALS abstaining, will be considered as not having voted”.
The quorum to take into account, according to Rule 6.1 “ The quorum will be a simple majority of ALSes accredited referred to in Rule 1.1 present and represented at the Assembly”
- Rule 6 - Quorum
6.1 A quorum shall consist of a simple majority of the accredited ALS referred to in Rule 1.1 present and represented at the Assembly.
6.2 The Assembly shall not decide on any matter unless a quorum is present
Procedure in the case of a TIE
The decision will be made by a draw. A draw means the decision will be made by random selection.
Rules:
Absent provisions re ties in the two LACRALO regulations available, LACRALO doc AL/2007/SD/2.Rev2, specifically provides “the full Rules of Procedure of the UN General Assembly may be invoked by participants of any meeting, or the Chair of any meeting, which is using these Ordinary Rules, as needed, to allow complex situations or difficult negotiations to be facilitated in a rules-based framework” . This rule is based on the UN GA Rule 132 (93) quoted below.
- UN GA Rule 132 [93] When only one person or Member is to be elected and no candidate obtains in the first ballot the majority required, a second ballot shall be taken, which shall be restricted to the two candidates obtaining the largest
number of votes. If in the second ballot the votes are equally divided, and a majority is required, the Chairman shall decide between the candidates by drawing lots.
Rules for ONE single candidate.
"In the case of a nomination of one candidate, LACRALO community will hold a poll. If a majority (more than 50%) of people responding to the poll, NOT counting abstentions, indicates NO, then the selection process for the ALAC seat will be restarted with a new call for nominations. On the contrary, the candidate will be nominated."
Abstentions: : According to rule 12.2, At Large Structures abstaining from voting shall be regarded as having not voted. However rule 19 says - When a Virtual Meeting of the Assembly is held, the following Rules shall not apply:6, 12.3. So those casting a vote “abstain” are counted for purposes of reaching quorum.
Based on past votes, staff has identified that abstention will be counted toward quorum, but abstention will not be counted toward result interpretation; in other words, for result interpretation, we will only count the votes cast for candidate(s), and the candidate(s) with the most votes win.
For releasing results, and in the case of elections for Chair and Secretariat, past practice shall be followed.
a) Country - coefficient calculation applies
b) Vote is NOT anonymous (based on research of previous elections)
