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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Dear IGC List member,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Within the next 48 hours you can expect
to receive an email inviting you to vote in the IGC Co coordinator
elections for 2019. We will notify you again when the messages are
dispatched. If you do not receive the message, you may want to check
your junk email or spam filters in case your software has filtered
the message from this mass mailing. Also – if you have been on the
mailing list for less than 2 months, you may not receive the email.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">If you have more than one email address
on the IGC list, you will probably receive multiple messages: so if
you know that is the case, you might like to advise us now as to
which email address you would prefer.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">When you do receive the email, it will
include a link specific to your email address inviting you to vote.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Voting is for people who identify as
civil society and meet the basic conditions to be an IGC member. So
before you get to vote, you will be asked some basic questions about
your status. If you know you are not a civil society member, or if
you have received another email asking you to vote, you can just
ignore the email if you like. Or you can proceed to the questions
which will verify your entitlement to vote.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">If you are entitled to vote, we
strongly encourage you to do so, as it is only by voting that you can
be a member of the IGC.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">When you have answered the qualifying
questions, you will be taken to a page which lists the three
candidates, and also the additional option “none of the above”.
You can vote validly by selecting one candidate, two candidates, or
“none of the above”. (The “none of the above” option exists
so that, if you have no preference among the candidates, you can
still register a valid vote this way and thereby be registered as a
member of IGC).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">When you have done this, you will be
asked to confirm your choice – and that's it! Shortly after that
you will receive a letter confirming that you have voted: and if for
any reason you made a mistake, that letter contains a link where you
can go back on line and change your choices (only the last vote you
do will count).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">HOW VOTING WORKS</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">After voting has closed, the Returning
Officers will verify the votes received and announce the results.
Please note that if you vote for two candidates, this records a vote
of equal value for each candidate selected: this is not a
preferential voting system.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">When you receive your voting email, we
think you will find the process very straight forward and easy to
follow (thanks in no small part to the small group of list members
who assisted us with testing and refining the software!) But if there
are any problems – you can always start again, and additionally we
are here to help if you have any problems.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">That's the basics of the process – we
will let you know again when we have sent the voting emails so you
can check and make sure yours has arrived.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">We look forward to your participation
in this important election for IGC.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Ian Peter and Tapani Tarvainen</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Returning Officers.</p></div>
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