[council] Election of GNSO Representatives to the Geo-Region Community Wide WG

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Council Members,

The nomination period for two GNSO representatives to the Community-Wide WG on 
Geographical Regions ends tomorrow Friday, 28 November at 18:00 UTC.

So far we have three nominations:
Olga Cavalli - NCA, GNSO Council,
Eric Brunner-Williams - CTO CORE
Zahid Jamil - CBUC, GNSO Council

Please send any additional nominations, including self-nominations, to the GNSO 
Secretariat
GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx before 18:00 UTC Friday, 28 November 2008.

The voting process will be initiated on Friday, 28 November 2008 at 20:00 UTC
12:00 noon PST, 15:00 EST, 18:00 Buenos Aires, 21:00 CET,  01:00 Karachi and 
07:00 Melbourne on Saturday 29 November.

All personal statements from the candidates will be posted to the Council mail 
server list on Friday, 28 November 2008.

The procedures proposed for the formal electronic vote are the following:

1. The list of nominated candidates will be provided with the statements 
provided from the candidates.

2. The ballot will list all the candidates names plus a choice of 'None of the 
Above'.

3. Councilors may vote no more than once each for up to two candidates or for 
None of the Above.

4. Weighted voting will apply.

5. The election period will end on Thursday, 4 December, at 18:00 UTC thereby 
allowing the Council to communicate the selected representatives to the Board 
one week prior to their meeting on 11 December 2008.

Note that the above allows Councilors to vote for two candidates, for one 
candidate or no candidates. If only one candidate is selected by a Councilor, 
that selection will only count as one vote (weighted if applicable) for that 
candidate; it would not be allowed to apply two votes to one candidate.

If anyone objects to this procedure or wants to suggest a modification, please 
communicate that NLT this coming Friday, 28 November.

In either of the above scenarios, Council will confirm the election of the 
representatives in the Council meeting on 18 December so that it is on the 
record.

Please note: the ballots will be sent from (tally@xxxxxxxxx), so please watch 
your spam filters as well!

Thank you for your cooperation,
Kind regards,

Glen

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org