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<div class="preview-header-left" data-resin-feature="navigation"><span style="word-spacing: -0.06pt;">Dear Chapter Leaders, </span></div>
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<div class="tb f68" style="top: 74.78pt; left: 80.02pt;"><span class="tx" style="top:17.1pt;width:3.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 440pt 4pt 11pt;"></span><span class="tx" style="top:34.1pt;width:427.9pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 15pt 4pt 11pt;">As you know
the Internet Society Board of Trustee elections are coming up </span><span class="tx" style="top:51.3pt;width:330.8pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 112pt 4pt 11pt;">soon (see also:
<a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/trustees">http://www.internetsociety.org/trustees</a> ).
</span><span class="tx" style="top:68.4pt;width:3.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 440pt 4pt 11pt;"></span><span class="tx" style="top:85.5pt;width:433.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 10pt 4pt 11pt;">It is therefore important that we know who within the Chapters
to send the </span><span class="tx" style="top:102.5pt;width:419pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 24pt 4pt 11pt;">voting ballots to. I know your respective regional Chapter Managers have
</span><span class="tx" style="top:119.6pt;width:420.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 23pt 4pt 11pt;">been in touch with some of you already but I wanted to share the revised
</span><span class="tx" style="top:136.8pt;width:383.6pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 60pt 4pt 11pt;">and simplified voting delegate validation procedure with all of you: </span></div>
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Delegates:</span><span class="tx" style="top:170.9pt;left:113.8pt;width:3.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 336pt 11pt 0;">
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<div class="tb f68" style="top: 262.8pt; left: 80.02pt;"><span class="tx f74" style="width:3.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 440pt 4pt 11pt;"></span><span class="tx f74" style="top:17.1pt;width:417.3pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 26pt 4pt 11pt;">The Voting Delegate
is as of 2016 by default the Chapter Chair/President, </span><span class="tx f74" style="letter-spacing:0.04pt;word-spacing:-0.04pt;top:34.1pt;width:422pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 21pt 4pt 11pt;">whose record is kept up to date in the AMS by the respective
Chapter AMS </span><span class="tx f74" style="letter-spacing:0.04pt;word-spacing:-0.04pt;top:51.3pt;width:382.6pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 0 4pt 11pt;">Administrator through the Chapter Portal at
<a href="https://portal.isoc.org">https://portal.isoc.org</a> .</span><span class="tx" style="top:51.3pt;left:392.6pt;width:3.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 57pt 4pt 0;"> </span><span class="tx f74" style="top:68.4pt;width:371.4pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 72pt 4pt 11pt;">Chapters
have different election times and may therefore change </span><span class="tx f74" style="top:85.5pt;width:433.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 10pt 4pt 11pt;">Chair/President at any time during the year. This is an ongoing process that
</span><span class="tx f74" style="letter-spacing:0.04pt;word-spacing:-0.04pt;top:102.5pt;width:392.5pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 0 4pt 11pt;">is monitored by the Chapter Development Team throughout the year.</span><span class="tx" style="top:102.5pt;left:402.5pt;width:3.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 48pt 4pt 0;">
</span><u><b><span class="tx f74" style="letter-spacing:0.04pt;word-spacing:-0.04pt;top:136.8pt;width:392.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 51pt 4pt 11pt;">Should the Chapter wish to appoint a Voting Delegate other than the
</span><span class="tx f74" style="top:153.8pt;width:422pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 21pt 4pt 11pt;">Chair/President, they can update the list of Chapter officers in the Chapter
</span></b></u><span class="tx f74" style="letter-spacing:0.04pt;word-spacing:-0.04pt;top:170.9pt;width:264.5pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 0 4pt 11pt;"><u><b>record accordingly through the Chapter Portal</b></u>.</span><span class="tx" style="top:170.9pt;left:274.5pt;width:3.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 175pt 4pt 0;">
</span><span class="tx" style="top:188pt;width:3.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 440pt 4pt 11pt;"></span><span class="tx" style="top:205.2pt;width:426.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 17pt 4pt 11pt;">It is therefore crucial that you update the Chapter Portal with
your current </span><span class="tx" style="top:222.2pt;width:384.6pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 59pt 4pt 11pt;">Chair/President as he/she will receive the ballot for the BoT voting.
</span><b><span class="tx" style="top:239.3pt;width:406.1pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 37pt 4pt 11pt;">Only if you wish that the ballot goes to someone else from the Chapter
</span><span class="tx" style="top:256.4pt;width:393pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 50pt 4pt 11pt;">(other than the Chapter President) will you need to indicate a Voting
</span></b><span class="tx" style="top:273.4pt;width:389.9pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 53pt 4pt 11pt;"><b>Delegate</b>. The Alternate Voting Delegate role will no longer be used.
</span><span class="tx" style="top:290.6pt;width:3.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 440pt 4pt 11pt;"></span><span class="tx" style="top:307.7pt;width:375.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 68pt 4pt 11pt;">For most of you the Voting Delegate in the Portal was already
the </span><span class="tx" style="top:324.8pt;width:423.5pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 20pt 4pt 11pt;">Chair/President of your Chapter</span><span class="tx" style="top:376.1pt;width:426.8pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 16pt 4pt 11pt;">. </span><br>
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</span><span class="tx" style="top:136.8pt;width:41.6pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 0 4pt 11pt;">Portal (</span><span class="tx" style="top:136.8pt;left:51.6pt;width:126.2pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 0 4pt 0;">https://portal.isoc.org</span><span class="tx" style="top:136.8pt;left:177.8pt;width:10.9pt;height:14pt;border-width:0 0 4pt 0;">)
<b>before Wednesday January 18th , 2017</b>. </span><br>
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<strong style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Nancy J. Quirós</strong></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Gerente de desarrollo, Capítulos LAC</em></span><br>
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<em style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tel: +506 8710 9393</em></p>
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<em style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Email: <a href="mailto:quiros@isoc.org">quiros@isoc.org</a></em></p>
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<em style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Skype: nancy_quiros</em></p>
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<em style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Web: www.isoc.org</em></p>
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