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LACRALO Operating Principles.  Updated in March 4, 2009 by the LACRALO General Assembly held during the ICANN meeting in Mexico

• Article 8. The LACRALO shall elect two (2) individual to serve as representatives before the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) on the terms specified in the ICANN By-Laws. Only those ALSs that have beenaccredited prior to the election shall be entitled to vote in the election.

Each accredited ALS shall be entitled to one vote. The selected representatives shall be members of various ALSs, have their main places of residence in countries of the region, and their nationalities must be distinct. The representatives shall be responsible for the duties stipulated by the ICANN By-Laws.
In the case of the election, the affiliation, residency and nationality shall also be taken into account with respect to the person acting as a representative vis-Ã -vis the ALAC on behalf of the LAC appointed by the NOMCOM.
 Please note that the rules above work/are interpreted with the following:

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• Rule 12 - Voting 
  12.9 The number of votes cast for or against any motion shall be limited by the following calculation with respect to any Assembly that is international in nature:
  a) The number of countries or territories covered by the entire membership of the Assembly shall form the numerator.
  b) The denominator shall be 100.
  c) The result of the division of (a)/ (b) shall be multiplied by 100.
  d) The result of 12.9(c) shall be known as the Maximum Percentage.
  e) The votes cast by delegates representing ALSes normally domiciled in any one
  Country may not in the aggregate exceed the Maximum Percentage. This calculation shall be separately applied to votes for and against any motion.
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• According to Article 12.2 of the Rules of Procedures and “according with that  established in Rules 6.2  the resolutions will be decided by the majority of ALS present and voting; for purposes of these rules, the sentence “ ALS present and voting” refers to the ALS issuing a negative or positive vote. ALS abstaining, will be considered as not having voted”.

The quorum to take into account, according to Rule 6.1 “ The quorum will be  a simple majority of ALSes accredited referred to in Rule 1.1 present and represented at  the Assembly”

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Procedure in the case of a tieTIE

The decision will be made by a draw. Rules:

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