Fwd: Ballot for GNSO Election for June 2006 Board Seat, Second Round

[Carlos Afonso]

Yes, you are right. The good thing about having Geist as a candidate is
to show the current NCUC standing regarding key ICANN issues.

fraternal regards

--c.a.

Mawaki Chango wrote:
> I'm not sure if Rita will be in Marrakech, however I'm afraid
> this won't make any difference: please note (below), as I just
> realize, the end of the second round is on June 21.
>
> Other Constituency members and GNSO councillors may be willing
> to get on a conference call with the remaining candidates,
> however due to prior committments, I am sorry not to be able to
> take any other one by June 21. (Note: We have two (alternate)
> conf-calls with the IDN working group on Monday and Tuesday, and
> not even sure to make it.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Mawaki
> P.S. Hopefully, I've removed from the ballot email below all
> "identifyable" or identification information related to the
> vote.
>
> --- @icann.org wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:01:23 -0700
>> From: @icann.org
>> To: ki_chango at yahoo.com
>> Subject: Ballot for GNSO Election for June 2006 Board Seat,
>> Second Round
>>
>>
>>
> ================================================================
>> DATE: Thu Jun 15 10:01:15 2006
>>
>> Note: This is a formal email ballot that will be recorded and
>> tabulated
>> automatically.  You may vote either via the web at the URL
>>
>
>> or via email.
>>
>> If you are unfamiliar with these ballots please read
>> the INSTRUCTIONS at the bottom of this message.
>>
>> ELECTION:      GNSO Election for June 2006 Board Seat, Second
>> Round
>> SERIAL NUMBER:
>> BALLOT NUMBER:
>> PASSWORD:
>>
> ================================================================
>> This is the second round ballot.
>>
>> Specific Instructions:
>>
>> 1.  Each GNSO Council member should fill out the ballot he or
>> she receives
>> (yours appears at the bottom of this message) and should
>> either return it by
>> e-mail to <@icann.org>, or use the web url supplied on
>> this ballot.
>> Please do not copy your returned ballot to any list.
>>
>> 2.  All ballots from the second round must be received no
>> later than June 21,
>> 15:00 UTC.
>>
>> 3.  Results will be announced on June 21, at 18:00 UTC
>>
>> 4.  If you have any difficulties, please contact the GNSO
>> Secretariat
>> at <gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org>.
>>
>> 5. There are two voting blocks.  Members of the registries and
>> registrars
>> constituencies get two votes, and should vote in BOTH blocks.
>> Members of all
>> other constituencies get one vote, and should only use Block
>> 1.
>>
>>
>> Block 1
>>
>> [] B1 - Rita Rodin
>> [] B1 - Philip Sheppard
>> [] B1 - abstain
>>
>> Block 2
>>
>> [] B2 - Rita Rodin
>> [] B2 - Philip Sheppard
>> [] B2 - abstain
>>
>>
>>
> ================================================================
>> END__:
>>
>>
>>
> ================================================================
>> INSTRUCTIONS:
>>
>> There are two ways you may complete the ballot.
>>
>> First, you can go to the URL
>>
>>
>>
>> and supply the BALLOT NUMBER and PASSWORD indicated above.
>>
>> Second, you can edit this ballot to make the appropriate
>> selections by
>> putting an "X" betweent the "[]" characters in the choices
>> above, and
>> return the email as a PLAIN TEXT message.  (It is extremely
>> important
>> that your email client be configured to send TEXT only.  HTML,
>> or any
>> other format, will likely not be correctly parsed.) If you
>> decide to
>> use the email method, the ballot must be sent to the address:
>>
>>     @icann.org
>>
>> (A normal reply to this message should work, provided your
>> email client
>> is configured to send PLAIN TEXT messages.)
>>
>> Please note the following important fact: due to the errors
>> inherent
>> in accepting email ballots, the system must deal with multiple
>>
>> responses from the same person.  Therefore, it is permissible
>> to vote
>> more than once; the basic rule is that the last vote submitted
>> is the
>> one that will be counted.
>>
>> As a consequence, it is also perfectly OK to both send in an
>> email
>> ballot, and to use the web form for submitting the ballot, and
>> indeed,
>> you may wish to do this to ensure that your vote gets counted.
>>
>>
>>
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