Background

A call for nominations was issued on the LACRALO mailing list on March 4 2012. 

According to the LACRALO Organising Documents, the term of the president of LACRALO and the secretariat of LACRALO is one year each.

The terms of the current LACRALO president and secretariat will end on April 15 2012.

The current LACRALO President is José Francisco Arce from Ageia Densi Argentina.

The current LACRALO Secretariat is Dev Anand Teelucksingh from Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society.

If there is any representative from an accredited ALS in LACRALO who wishes to stand for either

• the post of LACRALO president or
• the post of LACRALO secretarat,

please email the secretariat at admin at ttcsweb.org. 

Note: Per the Rules of Procedure of the LACRALO, nominations would be accepted for a minimum period of 4 weeks from the date of the Call for Nominations, with the election to take place no sooner than 48 hours after the expiration of 8 weeks from the date of the Call for Nominations. (Rules 13.1, 13.2, 13.3)

See: LACRALO Representatives Page for more details about the positions of the Chair and Secretariat.

Nominations for LACRALO Chair Position

The LACRALO Secretariat  has asked interested ALS representatives to put forward their candidatures by April 4 2012.

Nominations for LACRALO Secretariat

The LACRALO Secretariat  has asked interested ALS representatives to put forward their candidatures by April 4 2012.

Election Timetable

A list of ALSes and representatives in LACRALO will be sent by At-Large Staff to the mailing list to confirm the ALS list. 

Time would be allocated to the monthly LACRALO call on April 19 2012 for questions and answers from the candidates.

ALSes are encouraged to submit questions for the candidates in writing before April 19 2012 for the candidates to answer them on the conference call. After the conference call, online votes for the LACRALO President and LACRALO Secretariat will begin on April 23 2012 for a period of 7 days until April 30 2012. 

Each ALS in LACRALO will be emailed specific instructions and websites to go to submit their votes on Monday April 23 2012.

ON May 1 2012, at the end of the voting period, the votes are tallied as per rule 12.9 of the RoP (each vote is weighted with a country coefficient), and the results of the vote, including the votes cast and by which voter are presented to all of LACRALO, as per rule 20 governing rule 12.4

ALS representatives can email any questions to the list or via this election page.

Questions for the Candidates for the April 19 2012 conference call

The audio from the LACRALO April 19 2012 conference call can be downloaded from the  LACRALO 19.04.2012 Teleconference page. The discussion with the candidates starts at roughly 90 minutes.