First Call for Nominations - UK Usenet Committee Elections 2012

[Barry Salter]

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First Call for Nominations for the UK Usenet Committee
Open Class (Three Vacancies)

Please note that, in this Call for Nominations, all email addresses,
including the application address, are munged with (at) replacing the @,
in accordance with standard practice.

Applications and Nominations are requested for the "Open" class of
membership of the UK Usenet Committee.

There are currently three Open Vacancies.

Votetakers for the 2012 UK Usenet Committee Elections:

Primary: Barry Salter <com2k12-queries (at) ukvotes.southie.me.uk>
Secondary: Pedt Scragg <p.scragg (at) ukvoting (dot) org (dot) uk>
(Please only contact the secondary votetaker in an emergency)

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Definition of Open Class of Membership

Any participant in the uk.* hierarchy qualifies as a candidate in the
Open class.

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Application Requirements

Any participant in the uk.* hierarchy qualifies as a nominator for the
Open class.

Any individual may nominate a maximum of three candidates.

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Nominations must be received by 23:59:59 BST, 1st October 2012.

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Each candidate must receive four nominations. The nominators must
confirm support for their candidate(s) by replying to an email from the
votetaker. Replies must be received by 23:59:59 BST, 8th October 2012.

Please note that the usual voting rules on email address validity also
apply to all application and nomination emails. An application or
nomination cannot be accepted if the votetaker is unable to verify the
identity of the sender.

If a candidate fails to attract four confirmations from their nominators
by that deadline, they will not qualify for this round of elections.

NOTE: All applications will be released to the community by a posting
from a votetaker handling the elections as soon as they are received and
confirmed by similar method once the nominators have confirmed their
nomination.

Please note that there will be not be a period of grace for
confirmations after the deadline of 23:59:59 BST, 8th October 2012.

If candidates wish to supply more than the minimum four nominators, they
may do so. The first four qualifying confirmations received from
nominators will be announced by the votetaker as the official nominators
for each candidate.

In the event of there being more than three "Open" Candidates an
election will be held during October 2012.

Nominations *MUST* be sent to xcom12a (at) vote.ukvoting.org.uk.

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In accordance with the Committee Document, the following Open Class
Members have served a full three year term and are deemed to be retiring
from the Committee. They are eligible for re-election.

Graham Drabble
Clive D. W. Feather
Matthew Vernon

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Sections A and B MUST be completed for your nomination to be considered.
Section C is optional, but recommended.

A. Candidate - Name and Email Address:

Name : [ ]
Email: [ ]

B. Nominators - Name and Email Address

1. Name : [ ]
1. Email: [ ]

2. Name : [ ]
2. Email: [ ]

3. Name : [ ]
3. Email: [ ]

4. Name : [ ]
4. Email: [ ]

5. (continue the sequence if required)

C. A short ( < 15 lines ) paragraph on yourself (optional):

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This vote is being conducted by neutral third party members of UKVoting.
UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on
behalf of the uk.* hierarchy and other 3rd parties.

The rules under which votes for the uk.* hierarchy are taken are posted
regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the following URL:

<http://www.usenet.org.uk/voting.html>

The UKVoting web pages can be found at <http://www.ukvoting.org.uk/>

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