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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are pleased to share the self-nominations of candidates for the 2023 UASG chair election as per the
</span><a href="https://uasg.tech/uasg-charter/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">UASG charter</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> and Election Process available at
</span><a href="https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Candidates (in alphabetical order):</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Anil Kumar Jain<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Satish Babu<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Their Statements of Interest (SOI) are attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Thank you for your input on the voting period for the chair position of UASG. To allow for those traveling to ICANN76, voting period is shifted to start on 14th March 2023, and will end on 26th
March 2023. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Eligible voters should expect an email from eballot.com when the voting period starts. If you do not receive email from eballot.com, please check your SPAM folder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">If you have any queries, feel free to contact us at
</span><a href="mailto:info@uasg.tech"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">info@uasg.tech</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Kind regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">UASG Election Coordination Team </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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