Election timeline

[Michael Oghia]

Dear Tapani,

A quick procedural note: do the current councilors need to be re-nominated,
or are they already nominated as incumbents?

Best,
-Michael

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncsg at tapani.tarvainen.info
> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Elections are upon us soon. Voter check-in process has already been
> started, as I hope you all have noticed, and the key dates for the
> election are as follows:
>
> July 31  nomination period begins
> Aug  13  nomination period ends
> Aug  17  voter roll finalized, check-in ends
> Aug  18  deadline for nomination acceptance
> Aug  19  deadline for candidate statements
> Aug  21  voting begins
> Sep   3  voting ends
> Sep   4  results announced
>
> My apologies for delay in sending this, as nominating period is in
> effect starting right now.
>
> Up for election are:
>
> NCSG Chair, currently Tapani Tarvainen, not eligible for re-election;
>
> 2-year Council seat, currently Marilia Maciel, eligible for one more term;
>
> 2-year Council seat, currently Stefania Milan, eligible for one more term;
>
> 2-year Council seat, held by Martin Silva Valent as temporary replacement
>        for Amr Elsadr, who resigned from the council;
>
> 1-year Council seat, held by Tatiana Tropina as temporary alternate
>        for Edward Morris, who also resigned from the council.
>
> The council seats will be allocated so that 2-year terms will go to
> the three with highest vote counts and the 1-year term to the fourth,
> although regional and gender balance requirements may change the
> order; I will send a separate message about those.
>
> Note that the deadline given in the check-in request message was not
> final, it's just the time after which we'll assume you didn't get it
> and send a new one, or later try to reach you with other means. (A new
> message was just sent today to those who didn't respond last week.)
> The final deadline for check-in is when we finalize the voter roll,
> August 17.
>
> For our latest new members, I'm afraid you cannot vote or nominate
> candidates as our charter limits that to those who've been active
> members for at least 30 days. A bit surprisingly though you can,
> however, run for office if someone else nominates you.
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
>
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