Dear All, The deadline for nominations for the LACRALO President and Secretariat positions was Wednesday April 4 2012. Only one nomination for the LACRALO President was received: * José Francisco Arce from AGEIA DENSI José Francisco Arce from AGEIA DENSI has accepted his nomination. There will be a a vote for José Francisco Arce to reaffirm support for his re-election as president of LACRALO for a one year term from May 4 2012 according to our LACRALO Operating Principles and Rules of Procedure https://community.icann.org/x/Oo0i Three nominations were received for the LACRALO Secretariat for a term of one year from May 4 2012: * Sylvia Herlin Leite from INTERNAUTA BRASIL * Roosevelt King from Barbados Association of Non Governmental Organisations (BANGO) * Dev Anand Teelucksingh from Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society Sylvia Herlin Leite and Roosevelt King have accepted their nominations while Dev Anand Teelucksingh has declined his nomination. The following next steps will occur: - A list of ALSes and representatives in LACRALO will be sent by At-Large Staff to the mailing list to confirm the ALS list. - Time would be allocated to the monthly LACRALO call on April 19 2012 for questions and answers from the candidates. ALSes are encouraged to submit questions for the candidates in writing before April 19 2012 for the candidates to answer them on the conference call. - After the conference call, online votes for the LACRALO President and LACRALO Secretariat will begin on April 23 2012 for a period of 7 days until April 30 2012. Each ALS in LACRALO will be emailed specific instructions and websites to go to submit their votes on Monday April 23 2012. At the end of the voting period, the votes are tallied as per rule 12.9 of the RoP (each vote is weighted with a country coefficient), and the results of the vote, including the votes cast and by which voter are presented to all of LACRALO, as per rule 20 governing rule 12.4 ALS representatives can email any questions to the list or via the election page at https://community.icann.org/x/ga3bAQ Kind Regards, Dev Anand Teelucksingh LACRALO Secretariat