Dear BC Members, I have been notified by a few BC Members that the election announcement below was not received. There seems to be a technical problem with the BC Votes email address posting to the BC list, so I am now emailing this announcement from the BC Secretariat email address. *Please find below the announcement of the outcome of the nomination period for the BC Officer Elections for 2013, which was sent to the list earlier today.* My apologies for the inconvenience, Thank you, Kind regards, Benedetta Rossi Voting Officer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: bcvotes@hotmail.com To: bc-gnso@icann.org CC: bcvotes@hotmail.com; gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org Subject: Election Announcement: BC Officer Nominees Announced, Nomination period now closed Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:39:34 -0500 Dear BC Members, Please note this is an election announcement for the BC Officer Election 2013. I would like to inform members that the two week nomination period is now closed and I am pleased to announce the outcome of the nomination for the four open positions. *_Nominees for:_* * BC Chair: Elisa Cooper, Nominated by David Fares and seconded by Marilyn Cade * Vice Chair, Policy Coordination: Steve DelBianco, Nominated by Susan Kawaguchi and seconded by Chris Chaplow * Vice Chair, Finance & Operations: NO NOMINEE * CSG Representative: o Marilyn Cade, Nominated by Steve DelBianco and seconded by Ron Andruff o Bill Smith, Nominated by Zahid Jamil */Please note that candidate statements are to be sent to the Voting Officer no later than Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013./* * Discussion with the candidates is now open on the list until Feb. 19th, 2013. * Voting will begin on Wednesday, Feb. 20th, 2013 and close on Tuesday Feb. 26th, 2013. *The candidate call will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 19th at 11 am EST.*You are encouraged to submit questions for the candidate to_ bcvotes@hotmail.com_ in preparation for the candidate call. All questions will be aggregated by the Voting Officer and submitted to the bc-gnso list and to the nominees in preparation for the call. For more information regarding the election process, please refer to the election procedure previously submitted, or contact the Voting Officer on this email address. The candidate call will take place on*Tuesday, Feb. 19th at 11 am EST* and will be led by the Verifying Officer, the GNSO Secretariat. Thank you, Kind regards, Benedetta Rossi Serving as Voting Officer -- Kind Regards, Benedetta Rossi BC Secretariat https://community.icann.org/display/gnsobc/Home www.bizconst.org bc-secretariat@icann.org