Dear Community: In accordance with the At-Large election process for selecting the ALAC Board Liaison for 2009/2010 ( https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?board_liaison_process_2009), we can confirm that a vote has recently been opened. All authorized voters - that being the members of the At-Large Advisory Committee - will receive voting credentials by mail in the next few minutes. If you do not receive the message due to spam filtering or for some other technical reason, you may access the poll at this URL: https://www.bigpulse.com/24998/. Note that if you do not have a voting account for this vote, you will be unable to make use of this URL. At the expressed wish of the Chair, we wish to advise the electorate, NomCom and appointed, to take the opportunity to review in detail the information linked from the voting page and included below and to take the time to engage with their advisors, regional leads etc. on how the preferential order or their vote should be if they so desire. *********** The question to be put will be the following: Please indicate your preference for each of the candidates for the ALAC Board Liaison for 2009/2010. Detailed information on each candidate is available by clicking their name below. Your preference is indicated by clicking on the box to the left of each name. The order of preference is from most preferred (your first click), to your lowest preference (the last clicked). You must indicate a preference for each candidate for your vote to be valid. With possible candidates: Sébastien Bachollet Candidate Website: https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?board_liaison_nominee_s%C3%A9bastien_b... Alan Greenberg Candidate Website: https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?board_liaison_nominee_alan_greenberg# Seth Reiss Candidate Website: https://st.icann.org/naralo/index.cgi?board_liaison_nominee_seth_reiss Vanda Scartezini Candidate Website: https://st.icann.org/lacralo/index.cgi?board_liaison_nominee_vanda_scartezin... Wendy Seltzer Candidate Website: https://st.icann.org/euralo/index.cgi?board_liaison_nominee_wendy_seltzer *************** The vote will use the Single Transferable Vote (STV) voting method and close at 18:00 UTC on Wednesday, 30th September. This is an anonymous vote. It will not be possible to see live results and who has voted so far. The Staff will remind those who have not voted on the 28th by email. -- Regards, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff at atlarge.icann.org