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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear Nazar and Jim,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thank you for your emails. We will be happy to provide clarification regarding the communication sent for announcing the UASG chair election.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The election process was open for public comment period last October <a href="https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UASG-Election-Process-Draft.pdf" title="https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UASG-Election-Process-Draft.pdf"><span style="color:#000068">https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UASG-Election-Process-Draft.pdf</span></a>.
Based on the inputs, the new election process was finalized and published on <a href="https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/UASG-Election-Process-2023-onwards.pdf" title="https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/UASG-Election-Process-2023-onwards.pdf"><span style="color:#000068">https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/UASG-Election-Process-2023-onwards.pdf</span></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="TR" style="color:black;background:white">We
</span></span><span style="color:black;background:white">had contracted eBallot.com to issue the ballots, count and verify them. The results announced have been based on their certified input.</span><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">Th</span><span lang="TR" style="color:black">e election</span><span style="color:black"> process document includes the template for announcing the election results. When announcing the election results, this template letter
has been used</span><span lang="TR" style="color:black"> using the certified information from eBallot</span><span style="color:black">. As the template, which was reviewed by the community and UASG Leadership, does not include the details of the number of
casted votes for each candidate, this information is not included.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">If the community asks for sharing this data, this can be reviewed by Coordination WG and the new Leadership for the update of the next election process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I hope you find this information helpful. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Have a great day ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">UASG Election Coordination Team</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Jim DeLaHunt via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org><br>
<b>Reply to: </b>Jim DeLaHunt <list+uasg@jdlh.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>30 March 2023 Thursday 20:17<br>
<b>To: </b>"ua-discuss@icann.org" <ua-discuss@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [UA-discuss] 2023 UASG Chair Election Results<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 2023-03-30 05:20, Nazar Nicholas via UA-discuss wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#20124D">Your reporting on the results of the election is inadequate. It only shows the total number of votes as 244. It does not say how many voted for the chair for example.
Please give us the breakdown of the total vote cast, votes for the victor, votes for the loser, abstaintation votes, spoilt vote etc.
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<p>I agree with this. Part of the credibility of the election process is the credibility of the counting process. I agree with should have a breakdown of how many votes for each candidate and how many ballots were spoiled. We should have the names of the election
monitors, the people who stake their integrity to certify that the counting process was correct and that the results have integrity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>If this was more than a two-candidate contest using single member plurality voting, I would be advocating that the anonymised ballot data be released, so that people could confirm the count themselves. For this simple contest structure, the ballot data does
not tell us more than the breakdown of votes by candidate or spoiled-ballot status already tells us.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Best regards,<br>
—Jim DeLaHunt<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre> --Jim DeLaHunt, <a href="mailto:jdlh@jdlh.com">jdlh@jdlh.com</a> <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/blog.jdlh.com/__;!!PtGJab4!91QnYPERUM9HhbfKzee8N1FUWEZfJ4mKnmZ6Wt-2Qo8NpQPDMTzK1mlpHPJFX_Ma6ju-PMA9QAkcKpqLaDZ8dDt8GYgf$">http://blog.jdlh.com/ [blog.jdlh.com]</a> (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/jdlh.com/__;!!PtGJab4!91QnYPERUM9HhbfKzee8N1FUWEZfJ4mKnmZ6Wt-2Qo8NpQPDMTzK1mlpHPJFX_Ma6ju-PMA9QAkcKpqLaDZ8dE1ZLQfd$">http://jdlh.com/ [jdlh.com]</a>)<o:p></o:p></pre>
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