<div dir="ltr">Congratulations to the winners, and to echo Shahzad's comment, props to outgoing chair Rafik and Maryam for their effort in pulling this off. The sheer number of votes for all positions is overwhelming! It was good to see the Chair election keenly contested among two excellent candidates.<div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Shahzad Ahmad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shahzad@bytesforall.pk" target="_blank">shahzad@bytesforall.pk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Congratulations to all the winners,<br>
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Thanks to the other candidates for standing in and showing their deep<br>
commitment to this work.<br>
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...and many more thanks to everyone, who was working behind the scenes<br>
to make this election happen :)<br>
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Great work everyone especially Rafik and Maryam for their untiring<br>
efforts. Thanks again!<br>
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Best wishes and regards<br>
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Shahzad<br>
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On 9/15/15 2:03 PM, Rafik Dammak wrote:<br>
> Dear NCSG Members,<br>
><br>
><br>
> The NCSG annual election results are back and attached to this email.<br>
><br>
> Congrats to the new NCSG Chair Tapani Tarvainen and to the NCSG's 3<br>
> elected GNSO Councillors: Stefania Milan (2 years term), Amr Elsadr(2 years<br>
> term) and Marilia Maciel (2 year term).<br>
><br>
> A deep thanks to the other candidates, the nominators, and everyone who<br>
> checked-in, voted in the election. And also we couldn't have held the<br>
> election without the tireless assistance of our admin support Maryam<br>
> Bakoshi and Glen de Saint Gery from ICANN staff . Special thanks to our<br>
> departing councillor for her work and representing NCSG within the GNSO<br>
> council, Avri Doria.<br>
><br>
> I am really happy that we got a record turnout this time with 233 ballots<br>
> casted .<br>
><br>
> The term for these positions begins at the conclusion of the ICANN meeting<br>
> 54 in Dublin<br>
><br>
> Voters can check their individual ballot ID against the list of votes cast<br>
> (attached) to verify that their vote was counted correctly.<br>
><br>
> Finally, all election details are summarized in this page<br>
> <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Elections-2015" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Elections-2015</a><br>
><br>
> if you have any question please feel free to ask me.<br>
> Best Regards,<br>
><br>
> Rafik Dammak<br>
><br>
> NCSG chair (for few weeks)<br>
><br>
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