[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 is closed.

There are three nominations:
1. Olga Cavalli - NCA, GNSO Council,
2. Eric Brunner-Williams - CTO CORE
3. Zahid Jamil - CBUC - GNSO Council nominated by Mike Rodenbaugh
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg05777.html
seconded by Kristina Rosette
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg05778.html

The personal statements from the candidates are posted on the Council mail 
server list.
Zahid Jamil has not yet submitted a statement.

The voting process:
STARTS 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)
ENDS on Thursday 4 December 2008 at 18:00 UTC.
(10:00 PST, 13:00 EST, 16:00 Buenos Aires, 19:00 CET,  23:00 Karachi, 05:00 
Melbourne on Friday 5 December)

ALL GNSO COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE, that is, 3 representatives from 
each constituency, Registrars, gTLD registries, Commercial and Business Users 
(CBUC), Non Commercial Users (NCUC), Intellectual Property (IPC), and Internet 
Service Providers and Connectivity Providers (ISPCP) and the 3 Nominating 
Committee appointees.

Weighted voting will apply.

Liaisons from the ALAC and the GAC do not vote.

The PROCEDURES PROPOSED for the FORMAL ELECTRONIC VOTE are the following:

1. Voting will take place by secret e-mail ballot.

2. Ballots will be sent out individually to each GNSO Council members' e-mail 
address.

3. The ballots will come from tally[at]icann.org, so please check your spam 
filter.

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

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

6. Ballots should be filled out and returned to the e-mail address stated in 
the ballot. They should not be copied to any e-mail list.

7. The Secretariat will announce the results of the vote by sending a message 
to the council mailing list. This announcement will include:

a. The number of votes received by each candidate; b. The names of the GNSO 
Council members from whom ballots were received; and c. The confidential code 
number of each ballot and the candidate for whom it was voted.

Item 7(c) will allow each GNSO Council member to double-check that his or her 
ballot was properly understood, but will not allow others to determine how the 
member voted.

8. In exceptional cases where a GNSO Council member has no Internet access 
during the voting period, a voice vote may be registered with the GNSO 
Secretariat personally during the voting period, before the vote is closed.

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.

The GNSO Council will confirm the results of the voting at the Council meeting 
on 18 December 2008.

Please return your ballot as soon as possible. The voting period is short.

Thank you for your cooperation.
Kind regards,

Glen

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