<p dir="ltr">Congrats to Rafik and to all those elected and I wish you the best in the new term.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sincerely, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Walid Al-Saqaf</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 16, 2014 3:26 AM, "Rafik Dammak" <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">NCSG</span> Members:</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">NCSG</span> annual <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">election</span> results are back and attached to this email.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Congrats to the <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">NCSG</span>'s 4 elected GNSO Councilors: Stephanie Perrin (2 years term), David Cake (2 years term), Edward Morris (2 years term) and Marilia Maciel (1 year term). I am also re-elected for 1 year-term as NCSG chair.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A deep thanks to the other candidates, the nominators, and everyone who checked-in, voted in the <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">election</span>.  And also we couldn't have held the <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">election</span> without the tireless assistance of Glen de Saint Gery from ICANN staff. Special thanks to our departing councillors for their work and representing NCSG within the GNSO council: Klaus Stoll, Maria Farell and Magaly Pazello .</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The term for these positions begins at the conclusion of the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles (17 October).</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Voters can check their individual ballot ID against the list of votes cast (attached) to verify that their vote was counted correctly.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Finally, all election details are summarized in this page </font><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Elections-2014" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Elections-2014</a> </font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Best Regards,</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Rafik Dammak</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">NCSG chair</font></div>
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