[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Election Begins Today

[Jorge Amodio]

Hi,

be aware that some ballots may be going straight to the SPAM box, at least
that's my case with Gmail.

Regards
Jorge



On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:48 AM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I’m pleased to say that all the nominees have now accepted their
> nominations and sent in candidate statements.  Later today ICANN staff will
> push the button and ballots will be sent to everyone for whom we were able
> to verify a working email address through the processes described earlier.
>  The ballot should look like the below.  There are two notes appended at
> the bottom that respond to questions people raised during the process last
> year (Tapani and I have spent much of the morning reading the list archives
> to track down how things were done and announced in prior years).
>
> The election period runs from today Wednesday 4 December through Tuesday
> 17 December.  We should have results to announce on the 18th.
>
> Without wanting to belabor the obvious, we very much hope that everyone
> who is eligible will cast their ballot.  As I noted in a previous message,
> we had one race for a seat last year that was decided by a single vote, so
> every vote does count.  More generally, having a properly elected, fully
> mandated EC is important not only for our internal purposes, but in
> external contexts as well.  We’re in a much better position when advocating
> a position or claiming a seat at the table in ICANN or beyond if we can
> claim the mantle of democratic legitimacy and accountability.  I’ve had
> experience dealing with representatives of not nice governments in the past
> where this proved important, probably others here have as well.  So really,
> please do vote.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
> ————
>
> Mark exactly one box with an X for each of the six positions:
>
> *Chair*
> 01 [ ]  William Drake
> 02 [ ]  Abstain
>
> *Executive Committee – Europe*
> 03 [ ] Stefania Milan
> 04 [ ] Abstain
>
> *Executive Committee – Africa*
> 05 [ ] Hago Dafalla
> 06 [ ] Grace Githaiga
> 07 [ ] Abstain
>
> *Executive Committee – Asia and the Pacific*
> 08 [ ] Peter Green (aka Zuan Zhang, 张 钻)
> 09 [ ] Imran Ahmed Shah
> 10 [ ] Walid Al-Saqaf
> 11 [ ] Pranesh Prakash
> 12 [ ] Abstain
>
> *Executive Committee – North America*
> 13 [ ] Roy Balleste
> 14 [ ] Abstain
>
> *Executive Committee – Latin America*
> 15 [ ] Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza
> 16 [ ] Abstain
>
> *NOTES*
>
> *1.*  I*t is permissible to vote more than once by resubmitting a ballot
> during the election period; only the last vote submitted ultimately will be
> counted.*
>
> *2.  **Each NCUC member is entitled to vote for the chair and for 1 EC
> representative in each of the 5 ICANN geographic regions (i.e. up to six
> people). **Each NCUC member's vote is weighted as follows: 4 for large
> organizations, 2 for small organizations, and 1 for individual members.*
>
>
>
> **********************************************************
> William J. Drake
> International Fellow & Lecturer
>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
> william.drake at uzh.ch (w), wjdrake at gmail.com (h),
>   www.williamdrake.org
> ***********************************************************
>
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