Dear ccNSO members from the Asia-Pacific region, This is to inform you about the elections for the position of ccNSO council member for the Asia-Pacific region. Voting in the first round has now started and closes on Thursday, 25 November 2021 (23:59 UTC). The deadline to vote has been extended with 24 hours, compared to the timeline<https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/138970351/Item%209%20-%20ti...> previously approved by the ccNSO Council, since ballots were sent out with a delay. Apologies for the inconvenience. In accordance with the applicable rules, two (2) candidates from the Asia-Pacific region were nominated, seconded and have accepted their nomination. Consequently, an election will be held among the ccNSO members of the Asia-Pacific Region. Only ccNSO members from a Geographic Region are allowed to vote for candidates to the ccNSO Council from that Geographic Region. Candidates In alphabetical order: * Anil Kumar Jain * Jordan Carter The candidates were invited to submit candidate statements to the ccNSO members. They interacted with the ccNSO members and broader ccTLD community at a Q&A session, held during the ccNSO Members Meeting at ICANN71. Consult the recording here<https://72.schedule.icann.org/meetings/fRfDaLDDGWd6mGP39>. Election opening and closing Voting in the first election round started on Wednesday, 10 November 2021 (am UTC) and closes on Thursday, 25 November 2021 (23:59 UTC). Election procedure The vote will be by confidential email. Voting ballots have been sent by tally@icann.org<mailto:tally@icann.org> to the e-mail address of the primary contact of each ccNSO Member from the Asia-Pacific region, as listed in the ccNSO Members database. If you are unable to locate the ballot, consider checking your spam folder. Contact Joke Braeken (joke.braeken@icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>) if you have questions or concerns regarding the e-mail address of the primary contact for your ccTLD Since the election is for one seat, each ccNSO member will be entitled to vote for up to one candidate. For each ballot, a maximum of 1 candidate can be selected. There is a possibility to submit your ballot without selecting any of the candidates. Each primary contact will receive 1 ballot only. You can vote an unlimited number of times, but only the last vote submitted will be counted. As per the relevant guideline, a majority of all ccNSO members in the Geographic Region entitled to vote shall constitute a quorum, and the selected candidate must receive the votes of a majority of those cast by ccNSO members within the Geographic Region. Next Steps The election closes on Thursday, 25 November 2021 (23:59 UTC). The Election Manager will announce the voting results on Friday, 26 November 2021 (latest by 23:59 UTC). In case there is a need for a second voting round, or in case there is a tied vote, elections will be held, according to the following timeline: Start run-off elections, if any: Monday, 29 November 2021 (00:01 UTC) Close run-off elections, if any: Monday, 6 December 2021 (23:59 UTC) The Election Report, which includes the results of the election, will be sent latest 8 December 2021 to the ccNSO Council for adoption. The Chair of the ccNSO Council shall inform the ICANN Secretary of the selection. Links * Archive for nominations and secondments<https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ccnso-nominations/> * Call for nominations<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-13sep21-en.htm> * Relevant ccNSO guideline<https://ccnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/field-attached/guideline-ccnso-c...> * Timeline<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/workinggroups/timeline-nomination-election-2022-1...> * ccNSO Council Election Webinar: recording<https://community.icann.org/display/ccnsowkspc/ccNSO+Webinars> * Recording ICANN71 Q&A session<https://72.schedule.icann.org/meetings/fRfDaLDDGWd6mGP39> Candidate statements * Anil Kumar Jain<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/workinggroups/jain-statement-19oct21-en.pdf> * Jordan Carter<https://ccnso.icann.org/en/workinggroups/carter-statement-19oct21-en.pdf> Joke Braeken ccNSO Policy Advisor joke.braeken@icann.org