<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Dear Rafik and all,<br><br></p><p dir="ltr">
Since </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">this </div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">is the first involvement<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"> for me with as </div>NCUC member in the voting process of the EC, I could notice a weakness in the voting procedure.</span><p></p><p></p><p dir="ltr"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">Usually and in any voting process, the support or self promotion of candidates stops before the distribution of the ballots.</div><p></p><p dir="ltr"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">I've checked the new NCUC bylaws on this regards and it leaves the voting procedure to t he EC as per section </div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>VI. Voting<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"> :</div></font></div><div><p></p><p dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"</font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">D. The Executive Committee shall, as<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"> </div></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">needed, determine further procedures for<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"> </div></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">nomination and voting. Such procedures<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"> </div></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">shall be provided to the Constituency on<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"> </div></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">the website.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"> </div></span>e voting for<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"> </div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">the EC <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">"</div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Here, and once the approval of the new bylaws, there is a need to have consensus among the NCUC members with a clear voting procedure to be published on the website that includes the above point.</font></div><p></p><p dir="ltr"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best wishes,</font></div><p></p><p dir="ltr"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Nadira Alaraj</font></div><p></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br></p><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 Nov 2016 14:13, "Rafik Dammak" <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail-m_-1684748062675539834m_9137002682309715465gmail_signature"><div>Hi everyone,</div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>The NCUC Bylaws is finalized and ready to be voted during the election time this year. </div><div><br></div><div>I would like to thank Farzaneh for volunteering as the penholder and main editor for during the consultation started in September. I would like also to thank everyone who read, commented and gave input during that period to improve the draft bylaws. We tried to solve all the comments in document and conducted 2 sessions to go through list of issues (a conference call and meeting in Hyderabad). I would like also to thank Michael and Rachel for volunteering to do the proofreading and formatting for the final version. </div><div><br></div><div>You can find the link to the final version here. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wYP4-JGKA_u6QligvViBkygzj8Q62kmFF-ky5XSWWDU/edit#" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/<wbr>document/d/1wYP4-JGKA_u6QligvV<wbr>iBkygzj8Q62kmFF-ky5XSWWDU/edit<wbr>#</a> .You can also find attached the the final version of the bylaws in different formats so you can consult that offline or if you cannot access to google doc directly. </div><div><br></div><div>In order to highlight the changes, Raoul kindly created a diff doc which has new NCUC Bylaws and Old NCUC Bylaws. We have tried to update it with all the changes. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oMzuQglPSIeWjrZOzdJgjZUi2QdYwdxXfRe_SWuvmcY/edit" target="_blank">https://docs.google.c<wbr>om/document/d/1oMzuQglPSIeWjrZ<wbr>OzdJgjZUi2QdYwdxXfRe_SWuvmcY/e<wbr>dit</a> . You can also find the document attached in different formats.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again and now it is time to vote to get the changed bylaws approved by the NCUC membership.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Rafik Dammak</div><div><br></div><div>NCUC chair</div><br><br></div></div>ps. the process is documented here <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/governance/bylaws/bylaws-revision-2016/" target="_blank">http://www.ncuc.org/governance<wbr>/bylaws/bylaws-revision-2016/</a> and it will be updated asap.<div><br></div></div>
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