<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unless I’ve missed something in my mail swamp, we have received candidate statements from only 4 of the 10 people nominated for the 2015 EC; they are flagged below with an asterisk:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">1. Chair <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bill Drake<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(nominated by Avri Doria)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="">2. EC – Europe<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stefania Milan<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(self-nomination)</div><div class="">3. EC – North America<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>*Roy Balleste<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(self-nomination)</div><div class="">4. EC – Latin America/ Caribbean <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>João Carlos R. Caribé<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(self-nomination)</div></div><div class=""><div class="">5. EC – Asia/Australia/Pacific<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>*Walid Al-Saqaf<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(nominated by David Cake)</div></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>*Imran Ahmed Shah<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(self-nomination)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Peter Green (aka Zuan Zhang)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(nominated by Ed Morris)</div><div class="">6. EC - Africa<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Grace Githaiga<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(self-nomination)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>*Lorin Ekpe<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(self-nomination)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hago Dafalla<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(self-nomination)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The rest of us need to submit by Sunday 30th or we will not be listed on the ballot. That includes three nominees with uncontested candidacies; if that situation persists, the election can’t fill the EC and is a bust. So let’s please find the time to send something. When we have all statements in we will give the names to ICANN staff to pull the trigger 1 December and the voting will finally be underway. (next year I’d like to try shortening the cycle a bit)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A reminder on receiving e-ballots: <span class="">Maryam Bakoshi has been sending messages to the addresses we have in our member data base confirming that they are still valid and should receive a ballot on 1 December</span><b class="">. So far there are still quite a few members who have not responded. If you have not and wish to participate, </b></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class=""><b class="">please</b> </span><b class="">send an email to her Maryam Bakoshi <a href="mailto:maryam.bakoshi@icann.org" class="">maryam.bakoshi@icann.org</a> so she can check it against the data base. Please do this as soon as possible. </b>While you’re at it, you might want to double check that you are correctly listed at <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/about/members/" class="">http://www.ncuc.org/about/members/</a> as well. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""></div></div></body></html>