Dear Michael,

Yes, current councillors do need to be nominated and they must accept the
nomination and write candidate statements if they are to be re-elected.

Same goes for Chair in general, although in this case it's moot as I'm
not in the running.

Tapani

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 08:38:28AM +0200, Michael Oghia ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> 
> 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 <[log in to unmask]
> > 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
> >

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen