<div dir="ltr">Dear Tapani,<div><br></div><div>A quick procedural note: do the current councilors need to be re-nominated, or are they already nominated as incumbents?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Best,</font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-Michael<br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info" target="_blank">ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
<br>
Elections are upon us soon. Voter check-in process has already been<br>
started, as I hope you all have noticed, and the key dates for the<br>
election are as follows:<br>
<br>
July 31 nomination period begins<br>
Aug 13 nomination period ends<br>
Aug 17 voter roll finalized, check-in ends<br>
Aug 18 deadline for nomination acceptance<br>
Aug 19 deadline for candidate statements<br>
Aug 21 voting begins<br>
Sep 3 voting ends<br>
Sep 4 results announced<br>
<br>
My apologies for delay in sending this, as nominating period is in<br>
effect starting right now.<br>
<br>
Up for election are:<br>
<br>
NCSG Chair, currently Tapani Tarvainen, not eligible for re-election;<br>
<br>
2-year Council seat, currently Marilia Maciel, eligible for one more term;<br>
<br>
2-year Council seat, currently Stefania Milan, eligible for one more term;<br>
<br>
2-year Council seat, held by Martin Silva Valent as temporary replacement<br>
for Amr Elsadr, who resigned from the council;<br>
<br>
1-year Council seat, held by Tatiana Tropina as temporary alternate<br>
for Edward Morris, who also resigned from the council.<br>
<br>
The council seats will be allocated so that 2-year terms will go to<br>
the three with highest vote counts and the 1-year term to the fourth,<br>
although regional and gender balance requirements may change the<br>
order; I will send a separate message about those.<br>
<br>
Note that the deadline given in the check-in request message was not<br>
final, it's just the time after which we'll assume you didn't get it<br>
and send a new one, or later try to reach you with other means. (A new<br>
message was just sent today to those who didn't respond last week.)<br>
The final deadline for check-in is when we finalize the voter roll,<br>
August 17.<br>
<br>
For our latest new members, I'm afraid you cannot vote or nominate<br>
candidates as our charter limits that to those who've been active<br>
members for at least 30 days. A bit surprisingly though you can,<br>
however, run for office if someone else nominates you.<br>
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--<br>
Tapani Tarvainen<br>
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