Dear Colleagues: I trust that by now you would have had an opportunity to review the contested proceedings at the GA and adduced the facts from the evidence. For those of you who have listened to the tape, two (2) things should be abundantly clear 1) That there was a vote cast by Devnet 2) That the vote was cast in favour of Andres Piazza. The official count records and reflects the intent of the voter. And it should now be past dispute that Sergio Salinas Porto was incorrectly declared Chair of LACRALO immediately after the vote. By your votes and as evidenced by the official count, Andres Piazza was duly elected Chair of LACRALO. I apologize unreservedly to both Sergio and Andres for the error in reporting and the emotional trauma it might have caused. All this aside, the rhetoric of a few members continue to make claims that are unsupportable by the facts and and does violence to reason. In his specific case, Sergio Salinas claims an office which, by your votes, is illegitimate. Interestingly, we have seen claims of violations of human rights, presumably Sergio's since these orators conveniently forget the inalienable rights of Devnet. Threats are made to invite external intervention by several regional agencies. Not only is this baseless but may be interpreted as a cynical attempt to do a rerun of Bush vs. Gore 2004. The LACRALO rules prefer decision by consensus over voting. But once a vote is called, the procedure is balanced so that no one member may capture or determine the outcome of an election. All legitimate LACRALO members may stand for an election and Sergio exercised that right without secondary qualification. All LACRALO members in good standing are entitled to vote for the person of their choice and that has occured. All LACRALO members are entitled to see the vote they cast reflected in the results. DevNet, in common with Internauta Brazil, Internauta Argentina, ACUI or, for that matter, Ageia Densi, cannot be estranged from this right. In the end, there are no guaranteed winners, regardless of how personally deserving or desirous that member may see himself or herself. Consequently, the member does the work of a demagogue to continue to invoke democratic rules and in the next breath, dismiss the plural vote of the LACRALO General Assembly. I wish to assure Staff that despite some crass claims of conspiracy, the overwhelming majority of LACRALO members recognize a simple error when it is made and dismiss all such charges as ludicrous, if not offensive. As the presiding officer at the GA elections, I take personal responsibility for communicatiing the error. So far as I am concerned, the communication is corrected and the substantive results for the election of Chair, LACRALO is communicated. Kind regards, Carlton Samuels