On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:51, Axel Pawlik wrote:
At 28/08/2003 16:31 +0100, Nigel Titley wrote:
Legally, what we do is for remote voters to allocate their proxy to the chairman, who then "takes instructions" electronically to cast the vote as required. I don't know whether this would work under Dutch law, and it would also have some problems with the 2% proxy rule.
Like I said before, the Dutch law currently does not recognise electronic voting for the purposes of the GM.
And like *I* said before, neither does the UK, which is why we use the scheme of allowing the electronic vote to instruct the Chairman how to exercise the proxy. I can't see why this wouldn't work in the Netherlands.
That doesn't mean that it couldn't be used for other purposes. We should however consider carefully where and why we would want to depart from the consensus principle.
We currently don't use consensus in the AGM, (which is what is under discussion).
Having said that, we have been talking to our RIR collegues, to evaluate the electronic voting setup they are using. In the same vein, it would be interesting to get a look at the LINX setup.
cheers, Axel -- Nigel Titley <nigel@titley.com>