Dear All, The Chair of the ALAC requested the Staff to start an online vote on the two currently open ALS applications from Nurses without Borders and Wikimedia Switzerland. An email with background information on each of the applications was recently sent to the ALAC-internal list. The questions to be put will be the following: ****** Should the regional advice from AFRALO for applicant (136) Nurses without Borders be rejected? The regional advice was to accept the application. With possible answers: ACCEPT the regional advice and accredit this ALS REJECT regional advice and do NOT accredit this ALS Abstain ****** Should the regional advice from EURALO for applicant (137) Wikimedia Switzerland be rejected? The regional advice was to accept the application. With possible answers: ACCEPT the regional advice and accredit this ALS REJECT regional advice and do NOT accredit this ALS Abstain ***** The can find the online vote under: https://www.bigpulse.com/m9698 At the bottom of voting pages there is a link entitled “See who voted”, which allows you to see who has voted so far. Please note that the two votes are not linked to each other. They are on separate pages which allows you to submit your votes at different times. A separate email with their voting credentials has been sent to the members of the ALAC recently. Please contact staff@atlarge.icann.org if you did not receive your credentials so far. The vote will remain open until Tuesday, May 4th at 2359 UTC. All currently open ALAC votes are linked to a menu page under: https://www.bigpulse.com/m6962 The results of closed ALAC votes may be reviewed under: https://www.bigpulse.com/m7097 -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org