Voting using country coefficients offers a method to promote equality amongst countries and alleviates the potential problem of one or two countries with a large number of ALSes dominating the vote or the agenda of a RALO. . Each ALS is assigned a weighted vote proportional to 1) the number of ALSes domiciled in the same country as the ALS and 2) the number of countries in LACRALO that has ALSes domiciled in that country.
The number of votes cast for or against any motion shall be limited by the following calculation with respect to any LACRALO Assembly:
a) A Country Weight (CW) is calculated for every country in LACRALO that has an ALS domiciled in that country. CW is calculated as follows:
CW = 100 / (number of countries in LACRALO that have an ALS domiciled in that country)
CW = 100 / 21 = 4.76
b) A Country Coefficient (CC) is calculated for each country that has a ALS domiciled in that country.
CC is calculated as follows:
CC = CW / (number of ALSes domiciled in that country)
c) The weighted vote (WV) of an ALS cast for or against any motion with respect to any LACRALO Assembly is calculated by multiplying the vote of the ALS (be it yes or no for a motion or a vote for a candidate) by the Country Coefficient (CC) of the country where that ALS is domiciled. The weighted vote of an ALS is calculated as follows:
WV = vote of ALS x CC
July 2020: 60 ALSes in LACRALO
| Primary / Voting Rep | Country / Vote Weight | ALS |
| Luis Sergio Valle Sejas | 2.18% | Fundacion Para El Desarrollo de Las Tecnologias de Informacion y Comunicacion en Bolivia |
| Alyne Andrade | 0.87% | Instituto Brasileiro de Direito da Informatica |
| Gilberto Lara | 2.18% | Associacion Conexion al Desarrollo El Salvador |
| Ricardo Holmquist | 1.45% | Internet Society Capítulo Venezuela |
| Freddy Linares Torres | 2.18% | Internet Society Peru |
| Ana Maria Moreno | 1.45% | Red Internacional de Diseno |
| Lance Hinds | 4.34% | DevNet |
| Vanda Scartezini | 0.87% | Organizacao das Executivas de Tecnologia da Informacao e Comunicacao |
| Wanda M. Pérez Peña | 4.34% | Capitulo ISOC de la República Dominicana |
| Hamzah Haji | 2.18% | Instituto Panameno de Derecho y Nuevas Tecnologias |
| Jose Arce | 0.40% | Asociacion para las mejoras de las tecnologias de la infomacion y comunicacion |
| Diego Acosta Bastidas | 0.87% | Cultura libre y software libre del Ecuador |
| Michael Forde | 1.45% | Information Society of Barbados |
| Niran Beharry | 1.45% | Internet Society Trinidad and Tobago Chapter |
| Aida Noblia | 4.34% | Asociacion de Escribanos del Uruguay |
| Alejandro Pisanty | 2.18% | ISOC Mexico |
| Raul Bauer | 0.40% | Asociación Argentina de Usuarios de la Informática y las Comunicaciones |
| Ricardo Aveiro | 1.45% | Internet Society capítulo Paraguay |
| Carlos Raul Gutierrez | 4.34% | ISOC-CR Asociación Costarricense para el desarrollo del Internet (Public Registry # 3-002-652007) |
| Lilian Ivette de Luque Bruges | 1.45% | Ageia Densi Colombia |
| Percival Henriques de Souza Neto | 0.87% | Associação Nacional para Inclusão Digital |
| Dr. Aislan Vargas Basilio | 0.87% | AGEIA DENSI Brasil |
| Sergio Bronstein | 1.45% | Internauta Venezuela |
| Javier Eduardo Chandia Rojas | 2.18% | Internauta Chile (Asociación de usuarios de Internet) |
| Humberto Carrasco | 2.18% | Asociacion de Derecho e Informatica de Chile |
| Jose Luis Barzallo | 0.87% | Asociacion Ecuatoriana de Derecho Informatico y Telecomunicaciones |
| Dev Anand Teelucksingh | 1.45% | Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society |
| Antonio Medina Gomez | 1.45% | Asociacion Colombiana de Usarios de Internet |
| Cristian Casas | 0.40% | CETIC AJB |
| Carlos Dionisio Aguirre | 0.40% | ASOCIACION DE DERECHO INFORMATICO DE ARGENTINA |
| Carlton Samuels | 2.18% | The University of West Indies |
| Wladimir Davalos S. | 0.87% | Junior Chamber International Ecuador |
| Jose Olvidio Salgueiro | 1.45% | Asociacion Venezolana de Derecho Informatico y Nuevas Tecnologias |
| Adrian Carballo | 0.40% | Fundacion Incluirme |
| Natalia Enciso | 1.45% | Asociacion Paraguaya de Derecho Informatico y Tecnologico |
| Katiuska Hull | 2.18% | Asociacion Panamena de Derecho y Nuevas Tecnologías |
| Jessel Ackbarali | 1.45% | Information Technology Professional Society of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Maria de la Paz Silva Contreras | 2.18% | Vinculacion Para El Desarrollo, La Cultura y La Educacion, Asociacion Civil |
| Alfredo Ramon Velazco | 0.87% | Asociación de Usuarios Digitales del Ecuador / Digital Users Association from Ecuador |
| Carlos Vera | 0.87% | ISOC Capítulo ecuador |
| Maria Raquel Isaula | 4.34% | Red de Desarrollo Sostenible - Honduras |
| Sylvia Herlein Leite | 0.87% | INTERNAUTA BRASIL – Associação de Usuários de Internet da Republica Federativo do Brasil |
| Alberto Soto | 0.40% | Instituto Iberoamericano de Investigacion para la Socieded de la Informacion |
| Olga Cavalli | 0.40% | Internet Society Argentina Chapter |
| Milo Paraison | 4.34% | Association Haitienne des Internautes |
| Jason Francis | 1.45% | Barbados Association of Non Governmental Organisations |
| Johnny Laureano | 2.18% | Asociacion de Usuarios de Internet del Peru |
| Luis Nocera | 0.40% | Asociacion Argentina de Lucha Contra el Cibercrimen |
| Bartlett Morgan | 1.45% | Barbados Information & Communications Technology Professionals Association |
| Marcelo Telez | 0.40% | Asociación Unica de Chatters, Usuarios de Internet y E-commerce / Internauta Argentina |
| Rafael Lito Ibarra | 2.18% | ISOC El Salvado |
| Roxanne John | 4.34% | Internet Society St.Vincent and the Grenadines Chapter |
| Guillermo Manuel Zamora | 0.40% | Red ElDerechoInformatico |
| CARLOS LEAL SABALLOS | 4.34% | ASL IEEE Seccion Nicaragua |
| Ruben Hilare Quispe | 2.18% | Fundación Jaqi Aru |
| Araya Daniela | 0.40% | AGEIA DENSI |
| Melody Palmer | 2.18% | Information Communication Technologies Networking Jamaica |
| Maricarmen Sequera Buzarquis | 1.45% | Tecnologia, Educacion, Desarrollo, Investigacion y Comunicacion |
| Obed Sindy | 4.34% | Internet Society Chapitre Haiti |
| Ana Tobar (TBC - new ALS) | 2.18% | Asociación Salvadoreña de Derecho de las nuevas Tecnologías |
Reference : LACRALO Rules of Procedure
According to Section 17 of LACRALO Rules of Procedure : All voting is subject to the principle of country-weighted voting (see Title VI).
Title VI, Section VI, 22 defines the weighted vote.
LACRALO adopts the Weighted Voting Principle by applying a vote percentage obtained from a mathematical formula where the number of countries is divided by 100. This is the Maximum Percentage allocated to each country. The sum of all ALSes in a country shall never exceed this Maximum Percentage.
LACRALO Rules of Procedure This Maximum Percentage shall be the denominator number by which all the ALSes in a country are divided, which shall result in the “incidence weight” that the ALS will have at the time of voting. The ALS of Individual Users shall be considered in this mathematical formula.
Section 13: requires ….."In case of a virtual vote, voting shall be carried out in a manner that ensures transparency throughout the whole election process. Specifically:
ICANN staff will share before each election the spreadsheet that calculates weighted voting. The list of ALS that voted will be made public.
There will always be an option to vote anonymous"
