<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks Remmy, your point is well taken.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I personally agree with you. Anyone who would want to vote that way should have at least nominated someone, if not themselves (and we generally do share, before the closing of nomination deadline, the list of nominations received to help them make such decision.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The current formulation is what has been requested verbatim, so let us keep it as a tentative solution for now and we can open the debate as to what should be the preferred formulation going forward.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Mawaki</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></span></div></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Remmy Nweke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:remmyn@gmail.com" target="_blank">remmyn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks Mawaki <div>I think the right thing should have been to have abstain button rather than None, which is very much discouraging for candidates and potentials candidates.</div><div><br></div><div>It is sad that someone should be making such a request which I think is not in the best interest of any organisation, let alone a consensus-based organ like IG caucus. </div><div><br></div><div>What happens if we have a good number of None button on record? It will send wrong signals.</div><div><br></div><div>So, I will prefer and propose Abstain to None.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope my point helps.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards and keep walking.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Remmy Nweke</div></font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">@ITRealms</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><br>On Monday, January 12, 2015, Mawaki Chango <<a href="mailto:kichango@gmail.com" target="_blank">kichango@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Dear All,</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">On a member's request for the inclusion of the option to vote for none of the nominees, as a pre-requisite for him to exercise his right to vote (regardless of the actual choice he will eventually make), I have added "None of these nominees" to the response options for the Election question in the poll. </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">I have done this so as to make sure no IGC member feels deprived of their right to express their vote. I have resolved to make the change now because the person claims this is at least the second election he is making this request, keeping in mind that we don't have an efficient way to keep track of this kind of suggestions from one election to another, which are mostly handled by a different person each time, and that as a result the request might fall through the cracks again at the next election. Hopefully, we now have a template including the "none" option which will be carried over into the next elections. </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">I am letting you all know of this in the interest of transparency and hoping that the addition of that option would not have made any material difference for those who have already expressed their vote. If you have any issue or concern with this please let us know, preferably to our individual email addresses including Deirdre and myself, unless you think the whole list needs to be aware of it.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Thank you for your understanding.</div><div style="font-size:small">Best regards,</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Mawaki </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></span></div></div></span></span></span></div></div></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Mawaki Chango <span dir="ltr"><<a>kichango@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Dear all,</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">My apologies for just sending a vote reminder to a bunch of people who most probably didn't need one. Please discard if you have already voted or located your initial email invite. This was the result of mistakenly hitting the wrong button while I was trying to send a reminder to just one person. </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Please indulge that I repeat this. When you check your mailbox using your human senses and you don't find your ballot, the first thing to do is this:</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">1) Use your email client's search engine to look up key words related to this subject. For that purpose, the subject line of your email invitation to vote is supposed to be "<span style="font-size:18px">Voting link for 2015 IGC coordinator election"</span></div><div><br></div><div>Only after you did that, making sure your spam folder is also included in the search, and still haven't found your ballot, then you may:</div><div><br></div><div>2) Send me a note off list reporting this, and I will check the record and make sure you receive your ballot.</div><div><br></div><div>If our record actually shows that you were sent a ballot, I will send you a reminder the subject line of which should read "Reminder to participate in survey" (in case you need to look that up too using a search engine.)</div><span><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your understanding.</div></span><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Mawaki</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></span></div></div></span></span></span></div></div></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mawaki Chango <span dir="ltr"><<a>kichango@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Hi,</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">For all who have reported (and maintained) that they have not received their ballot so far, here is the status:</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">1) Sonigitu Ekpe: your name is in the voting list and the system reports you were sent a ballot to your Corssriver state government account. I just sent you again another invite in the form of a reminder (subject line: Reminder to participate in survey). Please check and carefully or let us know if you no longer have access to that email account.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">2) Shaila Mistry: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">3) Chantal Lebrument: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">4) Judith Hellerstein: True you were not sent a ballot, but I also have hard time locating you on the membership list. I just ran your name in the IGC user list page after page (it's painful not to be able to search the full database of members' names at once... so please bear with me and let me know your answers to the following questions.) Have you subscribed to the list with this name? Have you been a member for at least 8 weeks now?</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div>5) Raúl Echeberría: In fact this is the one case we spotted early as being subject to a glitch was. Have you, Raul, discontinued your membership recently before reactivating it or have you remained a member for at least the last 2 months?</div><div><br></div><div>I would appreciate everybody check and double check thoroughly (and be clear about having been a subscribed member for the last 2 months at least) before sending a claim that they have not received their ballot. Thank you for your understanding.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Mawaki <br></div><div><div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <span dir="ltr"><<a>kichango@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Dear IGC Fellow Members,</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments, joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new coordinator.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are subscribed to the IGC list.)</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only if you have not but think you should have.)</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!</div><div style="font-size:small">Warm regards,</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Mawaki </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">=====================================</div>Mawaki Chango, PhD <br>Founder<br>DIGILEXIS<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.digilexis.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.digilexis.com</a><br></div><div style="font-size:13px"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">m.chango@digilexis.com</a> | <u><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">kichango@gmail.com</a></u> <br>Twitter: @digilexis & <span style="font-size:13px">@prodigilexis</span></div><div style="font-size:13px">Mob. <a href="tel:%2B225%2057%2055%2057%2053" value="+22557555753" target="_blank">+225 57 55 57 53</a> | <a href="tel:%2B225%2044%2048%2077%2064" value="+22544487764" target="_blank">+225 44 48 77 64</a></div><div style="font-size:13px">Skype: digilexis</div></div></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:small">=====================================</div></div></span></span></span></div></div></span></span></span></span></div></div></div>
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