2.2.4.2.2 The Election Phase and Voters

The Nomination Committee named three candidates to the Latin American Ballot: (Patricio Poblete from Chile, Raúl Echeberría from Uruguay and Ivan Moura Campos from Brazil). Both Patricio and Raúl had served previously as Names Council Members, and both are well known in the Latin American ICANN community. Ivan Moura Campos is the Coordinator of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, which has been very involved in all ICANN matters; he, as well, is well known in Latin America as an expert in Internet-related topics.

In the self-nomination process, two additional candidates joined the ballot: Claudio Silva Menezes and Aluisio S. Nunes. Both are from Brazil, and neither is well known within the Internet Latin American Community as regards domain names, Internet addresses or public policies. Claudio got a significant level of support.

The result of the election was:

Ivan Moura Campos	946
Claudio Silva Menezes	157
Raúl Echeberría	141
Aluisio S. Nunes	79
Patricio Poblete	79

Due to the high number of registered Brazilians, the result of the election seems to have been rather predictable.

Most of those interviewed felt that the problems encountered in the registration and activation phases were enough to distort the final result of the election. However, most of them also believed that the election of Ivan Moura Campos was a positive outcome, and that he is doing a good job as an ICANN Director so far. Many interviewees also commented on the nationalist influence on the campaign and on the election itself, although most believed that such influence was generally unavoidable.

2.2.4.2.1.5 The election campaign

2.2.4.3 Conclusions and suggestions