[LAC-Discuss] Election for LACRALO ALAC Representative

[At-Large Staff]

Dear all, 

We recently sent out an email to the global list with a summary of the
regional provisions governing the ALAC elections and a proposed timeline for
the regional  elections .

This email is to provide you a detailed overview of the situation in the
Latin American and Carribean region and assist you with the organization of
the elections.  

There will be one LACRALO ALAC representative up for election this year as
José Ovidio Salgueiro¹s term ends at the close of the Cairo meeting.
According to Article 8 of the LACRALO Operating Principles, terms shall be
no longer than two years. However, since both ALAC terms started in 2006, it
was decided that Carlos Aguirre¹s mandate expireed at the close of the 2009
ICANN annual meeting to allow for staggered terms.

LACRALO is one of the regions that have adopted detailed Rules of Procedure
for meetings. Detailed provisions for elections and voting during meetings
can be found under:
https://st.icann.org/lacralo/index.cgi?ralo_organising_documents

It is up to the region to decide if it wishes to treat the election as if it
were a meeting. Alternatively, LACRALO can decide to adopt the following
election process that has been suggested to the regional organizations
without specified provisions :

* The regional Secretariat will make a call for election no later than seven
weeks before the start of the annual ICANN meeting (14 September 2008)
* Nominations shall be accepted for two weeks after the Secretariat calls
for nominations (until 28 September 2008)
* The nominees need to accept their nomination no later than seven days
after the nomination period ends  (05 October 2008)
* The election shall begin no later than one week after the end of the
acceptance deadline (12 October 2008) and end not later than two weeks
before the start of the annual ICANN meeting. (19 October 2008). In other
words, votes would actually be cast between 12 to 19 October 2008. The votes
would be cast via an electronic voting system (www.bigpulse.com).

To facilitate this election, we ask the LACRALO Secretariat to send us a
note on the election procedures the region would like to adopt.

Regards,

Nick Ashton-Hart, Matthias Langenegger, Frederic Teboul
ICANN At-Large Staff
email: staff at atlarge.icann.org