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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear Deirdre
and Mawaki,<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Congratulations
and wishing you all the best. <br>
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Guru<br>
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On 02/05/2014 10:06 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Calls
for expressions
of interest or nominations were made on the IGC mailing
list in June, 2013.By
December 31<sup>st</sup>, 2013 both positions were vacant.
During the calls for
election, we had received the following nominations:</span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1)
Deirdre Williams</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2) Imran
Ahmed Shah</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3)
Mawaki Chango</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">4)
Mwendwa Kivuva</span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prior to
holding the
elections, Mwendwa Kivuva withdrew leaving only three
remaining candidates.
Prior to hosting the elections and preparing ballot papers,
we had to verify
and check our subscriber database to ensure that things were
in order prior to
sending the ballot papers. There were some subscribers who
had moved and so had
inactive email accounts. We had to clean these as well. We
also noted that
there were some who were subscribe to the mailing list but
did not have IGC
accounts by registering on the site. We received feedback
from some of the
subscribers that they did not get ballot papers. The
estimated number of
subscribers to the mailing list is around 600. The estimated
number of account
holders who are both subscribed to the mailing list and have
IGC accounts is
around 400. The number of people who voted was 276. During
the elections, we
received “Out of Office” responses from a few.</span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Following
last year’s
elections and from feedback from the community, this year we
introduced the
abstention category allowing people to not select a
candidate. To all those who
exercised their right to vote or to abstain, thank you.
Special thanks to ALL the
amazing candidates who participated. Special thanks to Imran
Ahmed Shah for his
continuous commitment to make a difference in his community
in Pakistan and
also in global forums.</span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Congratulations
to Deirdre Williams who will serve the
two year term replacing me. Congratulations to Mawaki Chango
who will serve the
one year term replacing Norbert Bollow. I am pleased to <b>formally
hand over</b> and now declare the elections closed. To the
new coordinators, I wish you wisdom, good energy, strength
as you navigate the waters ahead. </span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
Election results
can be viewed at </span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://igcaucus.org/co-coordinators">http://igcaucus.org/co-coordinators</a></span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Last but not
least I would like to thank Chaitanya Dhareshwar and Jeremy
Malcolm for being <b>superstars</b> in facilitating the
elections. The elections was carried out in accordance with
the Charter.</p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thank
you all.</span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Salanieta
Tamanikaiwaimaro</span></p>
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