Yes, you are right. The good thing about having Geist as a candidate is to show the current NCUC standing regarding key ICANN issues. fraternal regards --c.a. Mawaki Chango wrote: > I'm not sure if Rita will be in Marrakech, however I'm afraid > this won't make any difference: please note (below), as I just > realize, the end of the second round is on June 21. > > Other Constituency members and GNSO councillors may be willing > to get on a conference call with the remaining candidates, > however due to prior committments, I am sorry not to be able to > take any other one by June 21. (Note: We have two (alternate) > conf-calls with the IDN working group on Monday and Tuesday, and > not even sure to make it.) > > Regards, > > Mawaki > P.S. Hopefully, I've removed from the ballot email below all > "identifyable" or identification information related to the > vote. > > --- @icann.org wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:01:23 -0700 >> From: @icann.org >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Ballot for GNSO Election for June 2006 Board Seat, >> Second Round >> >> >> > ================================================================ >> DATE: Thu Jun 15 10:01:15 2006 >> >> Note: This is a formal email ballot that will be recorded and >> tabulated >> automatically. You may vote either via the web at the URL >> > >> or via email. >> >> If you are unfamiliar with these ballots please read >> the INSTRUCTIONS at the bottom of this message. >> >> ELECTION: GNSO Election for June 2006 Board Seat, Second >> Round >> SERIAL NUMBER: >> BALLOT NUMBER: >> PASSWORD: >> > ================================================================ >> This is the second round ballot. >> >> Specific Instructions: >> >> 1. Each GNSO Council member should fill out the ballot he or >> she receives >> (yours appears at the bottom of this message) and should >> either return it by >> e-mail to <@icann.org>, or use the web url supplied on >> this ballot. >> Please do not copy your returned ballot to any list. >> >> 2. All ballots from the second round must be received no >> later than June 21, >> 15:00 UTC. >> >> 3. Results will be announced on June 21, at 18:00 UTC >> >> 4. If you have any difficulties, please contact the GNSO >> Secretariat >> at <[log in to unmask]>. >> >> 5. There are two voting blocks. Members of the registries and >> registrars >> constituencies get two votes, and should vote in BOTH blocks. >> Members of all >> other constituencies get one vote, and should only use Block >> 1. >> >> >> Block 1 >> >> [] B1 - Rita Rodin >> [] B1 - Philip Sheppard >> [] B1 - abstain >> >> Block 2 >> >> [] B2 - Rita Rodin >> [] B2 - Philip Sheppard >> [] B2 - abstain >> >> >> > ================================================================ >> END__: >> >> >> > ================================================================ >> INSTRUCTIONS: >> >> There are two ways you may complete the ballot. >> >> First, you can go to the URL >> >> >> >> and supply the BALLOT NUMBER and PASSWORD indicated above. >> >> Second, you can edit this ballot to make the appropriate >> selections by >> putting an "X" betweent the "[]" characters in the choices >> above, and >> return the email as a PLAIN TEXT message. (It is extremely >> important >> that your email client be configured to send TEXT only. HTML, >> or any >> other format, will likely not be correctly parsed.) If you >> decide to >> use the email method, the ballot must be sent to the address: >> >> @icann.org >> >> (A normal reply to this message should work, provided your >> email client >> is configured to send PLAIN TEXT messages.) >> >> Please note the following important fact: due to the errors >> inherent >> in accepting email ballots, the system must deal with multiple >> >> responses from the same person. Therefore, it is permissible >> to vote >> more than once; the basic rule is that the last vote submitted >> is the >> one that will be counted. >> >> As a consequence, it is also perfectly OK to both send in an >> email >> ballot, and to use the web form for submitting the ballot, and >> indeed, >> you may wish to do this to ensure that your vote gets counted. >> >> >> > ================================================================ > >