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Dear NCSG Members:<div><br></div><div>It is time for our annual member "check-in" process in anticipation of the fall NCSG elections. In order to receive an email ballot for the annual election, each member is required to "check-in" each year to ensure the member is current and "active" and that the email ballot will be sent to correct the email address for that member.</div><div><br></div><div>Therefore, each member will receive a separate email notice from me today asking you to check-in by replying to that email (as per the NCSG Charter). I will include the word "Important" in the subject line if you need to search your various email boxes and spam filters for the message.</div><div><br></div><div>If you do not respond to that email by 20 August 2012 to verify your active membership, then you will be put on the "inactive" list.</div><div><br></div><div>I will try additional measures to contact those "inactive" members (phone, email, etc.) for another week to verify their active membership. Any "inactive" member who checks-in before 27 August 2012 will be moved to the "active" members list and will be able to vote in the fall election.</div><div><br></div><div>So it is important that you take a moment to check-in by replying to that separate email request at your earliest opportunity.<br><br> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Thank you,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>IP JUSTICE</div><div>Robin Gross, Executive Director</div><div>1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA</div><div>p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451</div><div>w: <a href="http://www.ipjustice.org">http://www.ipjustice.org</a> e: <a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>