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    <p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">However, thick nota is
          what we are after, Arseni.... a nota for each candidate.</font></font></p>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="">Does the fact one is not signing
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        course not. Not signing does not imply anything. You might agree
        with the issue but not think it is worth appealing, you might
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            <div dir="ltr" class="">What is the best way to thick "NOTA"
              to this discussion? I think that's the best option for me
              given there is a lot that have been said in this whole
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                                                          *<b class="">Arsène
                                                          Tungali</b>*<br
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                                                          Co-Founder
                                                          &
                                                          Executive
                                                          Director, <span
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href="http://www.rudiinternational.org/" target="_blank" class="">Rudi
                                                          international</a></i>,</span><br
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                                                          CEO,<i
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moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.smart-serv.info/"
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                                                          Services Sarl</a></i>,
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                                                          Tel: +243
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                                                          <div class=""><a
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target="_blank" class="">2015 Mandela Washington Felllow</a> (YALI) - <a
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href="http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-programmes/next-generation-leaders/igf-ambassadors-programme/2015Ambassadors"
target="_blank" class="">ISOC IGF Ambassador</a><a
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                                                          Fellow</a>.<i
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              <div class="gmail_quote">2016-08-23 17:08 GMT+02:00 Sam
                Lanfranco <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a
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                    <div class="">Avri & "The Group of 21"<br
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                      There has been a lot of back and forth about what
                      exactly is being done wrong, or being done right,
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                      in this election process. In your appeal you
                      write:<br class="">
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                      <i class="">"Without any notice to the membership
                        or the Executive Committee, the NCSG Chair
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                      </i><i class="">the longstanding interpretation of
                        the election rules, causing confusion among the
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                      </i><i class="">once the ballot was released"</i><i
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                      I agree that there is much confusion so could you
                      expand on your appeal and spell out in a few words
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                      what exactly what the longstanding interpretation
                      and what change violated that interpretation. <br
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                      I am not asking about the merits of either
                      approach, only for clarity about the nature of the
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                        On 8/23/2016 10:44 AM, avri doria wrote:<br
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                        <pre class="">NCSG colleagues,

*Pursuant to Section 2.4.2.1 of NCSG’s Charter, the NCSG Members
signed***in the enclosed***hereby initiate an appeal of the NCSG EC
decision to refuse to fix the contested ballots and properly clarify the
election process before proceeding.*

Thank you,

Avri Doria

on behalf of the 21 members who signed the appeal*
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