<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear all, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">At the moment the organizational reps can also be individual members. Apparently, it has been discussed repeatedly in the past with no decision. Other than they said it is not against the charter.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I started contacting those who were listed as an individual and organizational rep on the check-in list and had the impression that it was the practice that they cannot be both for voting purposes. Tapani corrected me and said it was discussed but never decided against: <a href="https://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/election-reform/2017-June/000021.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/election-reform/2017-June/000021.html</a>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I personally think it is unfair to allow organizational reps who are individual members to vote twice. This is because organizational reps normally have autonomy from their organization and do not have a mandate as such. That provides them with the opportunity to be able to vote twice and I think we need to fix it. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It might be too late to do this in this election but we need to discuss with members and make a decision. I can explain the rationale to those who are reping and org and are individual members and allow them to decide what they want to do for this election voluntarily until we make a decision. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This is important please chime in, and we will also discuss with the list. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Best </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div></div>