Dear Admin Contacts,
The Electoral Reform Society are carrying out the balloting services for the cctld elections on behalf of the Administrative Committee of the ccTLD Constituency.
On 7 August they did, as promised, try to send you the ballot form and instructions but the message bounced. The email address from which the message was sent had not been added to this closed list which I have now done for future mails.
I paste their original message below and remind you that yor votes should go to ccTLD.Votes@erbs.co.uk and not to me.
When your vote is received you will receive back to the admin contact address a confirmation and a number known only to you.
The voting results will be published using the numbers so that each registry can check that their vote was recorded properly and everyone can see the overall voting pattern without divulging to others how each registry voted. A list of whcih registries voted will be posted to the website without showing their actual vote.
Regards
Fay
1. Please read the candidates' election statements before voting. These can be found at http://www.wwtld.org/elections/candidate-index.html
2. This election will be conducted by the Single Transferable Vote: Do NOT vote with an 'X'.
3. Vote by entering the figure 1 in the square brackets next to the candidate you most strongly support, the figure 2 against your next favoured candidate, the figure 3 against your third preference, and so on until you are unable to differentiate between the remaining candidates.
4. You may express as many or as few preferences as you wish.
5. Your preferences must be consecutive and you must not use the same preference more than once.
6. Enter the two letter code for your registry (e.g. ES for Spain) in the space provided. Note that if you are the admin contact for more than one registry you will receive an email voting form for each one.
Example:
[5] Alf
[1] Bill
[3] Charlie
[4] Doris
[2] Edna
[6] Freda
[ES] 2-letter registry code
In the above example, Bill is the candidate you would most like to see elected, Edna is your second preference, and your third, fourth fifth and sixth choices are Charlie, Doris, Alf and Freda respectively.
7. With this method of voting the expression of a subsequent preference can never harm the prospects for election of a candidate you rate more highly; you are therefore urged to express preferences to the full extent of your ability to differentiate between candidates.
8. When you have completed the voting form, cut and paste the section below into your email reply to the Electoral Reform Ballot.
VOTING FORM(Candidates are listed in alphabetical order). ---------------------------------------------- [ ] Rob Hall [ ] Dennis Jennings [ ] Patrick O'Brien [ ] Patricio Poblete [ ] Nigel Roberts [ ] Antony Van Couvering [__] 2-letter registry code ----------------------------------------------
When you have entered your votes, copy and paste the section above into your email reply to ccTLD.Votes@erbs.co.uk
On receipt of your vote you will be sent confirmation by email of how your vote has been recorded.
This election is being conducted by the independent Electoral Reform Ballot Services Limited.