<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Gihan and all,</div><div><br></div><div>Appreciating Gihan's hard work as chair of election committee for 2015, I like to congratulate Walid on joining the BoT this year! I enjoyed being a candidate together with Walid this round who seems to be very eager to contribute his time and energy to the challenging BoT work. I have strong belief in his competences in his role as BoT.</div><div><br></div><div>Taking advantage of this opportunity, I also want to express my respect for other candidates, Rafael and Johan, who were willing to volunteer their time and energy for ISOC. Hope we can have more chances to see such commitments from more chapters down the road.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>YJ</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Gihan Dias <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gihan@uom.lk" target="_blank">gihan@uom.lk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<blockquote><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-US">Dear
Chapter
Delegates<span lang="en-GB">,</span></span></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-GB">On
behalf
of the Internet Society’s Elections Committee, I wish to
extend our appreciation and thanks to all of the nominees and
candidates for the Board of Trustees Election 2015. We are
honoured
that such well-qualified individuals offered to serve on the
Internet
Society Board.</span></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-GB">The
election
concluded on 6<sup>th</sup> April and the results have been
certified by the Elections Committee.</span></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-GB">CHAPTERS</span></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-GB">In
the
chapters election we had four candidates for the open Trustee
seat. <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/other/walid-al-saqaf" target="_blank">Walid
Al-Saqaf</a> received 34 votes out of the 88 votes cast Each
of the
other candidates (and abstentions) received less than this
number of
votes. A list of all Chapters eligible to vote in the
election,
indicating which Chapters exercised their voting privilege, is
available <a href="http://connect.internetsociety.org/communities/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument/?DocumentKey=6cd10bba-8775-43c9-b15e-f88fb047c2b4" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-GB">ORGANISATIONS</span></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-GB">In
the
Organisation membership election there were three candidates
for
one Trustee seat. <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/other/alice-munyua" target="_blank">Alice
Munyua</a> received 92 weighted votes out of 232 weighted
votes cast.
Each of the other candidates (and abstentions) received less
than
this number of votes. In this election, the vote of each
organisational member has a weight of between 1 and 6 based on
the
membership category.</span></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-GB">It
may
be of further interest that in the 2015 Election, 88 out of
105
Chapters (84%), and 74 out of 119 Organisation Members (62%)
voted.</span></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-US"><span lang="en-GB">We
now move into the challenge period. Challenges can be lodged
between
now and 21:00 UTC on </span><span lang="en-GB">1</span><span lang="en-GB">7</span><span lang="en-GB">th</span><span lang="en-GB">
</span><span lang="en-GB">April</span><span lang="en-GB"> 201</span><span lang="en-GB">5</span><span lang="en-GB">,
by email to the President of the Internet Society, Kathy
Brown
</span><span lang="en-GB"><</span><a href="mailto:brown@isoc.org" target="_blank"><span lang="en-GB">brown@isoc.org</span></a><span lang="en-GB">>
</span><span lang="en-GB">with a recital of the reasons for
the
challenge. The President, after consultation with the Chairs
of the
Nominations and Elections Committees and the members of the
Board of
Trustees, shall advise the author of the challenge of the
Board's
decision within </span><span lang="en-GB">4</span><span lang="en-GB">
days following the end of the challenge period.</span></span></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-GB">The
Challenge
Response Period ends on Tuesday, 21 April 2015, the date on
which the results will be finalized and officially announced.</span></font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-GB">Gihan
Dias</span></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-GB">Chairman,
Elections
Committee</span></font></blockquote>
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