Well what fun

 

I just received a mail from Afrinic stating my e-voting not valid even though everything was submitted on time and acknowledged and found no issues weeks ago.

 

Thank you for submitting your application for e-voting in the AFRINIC Board Election 2025.

 

After careful review, we regret to inform you that your application does not meet all the eligibility requirements outlined in the official communication ( Afrinic Voters Register Communiqué

(https://www.afrinic.net/ast/2025/Afrinic_Voters_Register_Communique.pdf)) and the official FAQ document  (https://www.afrinic.net/ast/2025/Final_FAQ.pdf).

 

Rejection reason: No notarial certificate was attached to the letter nor was an equivalent legally authorized document provided.

 

 

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From: Mark Elkins via zanog-discuss <zanog-discuss@lists.nog.net.za>
Sent: Wednesday, 18 June 2025 15:24
To: zanog-discuss@lists.nog.net.za
Cc: Mark Elkins <mark@posix.co.za>
Subject: [zanog-discuss] AFRINIC Board Election: E-voting has started

 

Dear Members of AfriNIC,

If you are unsure whom to vote for, please note that a number of Internet Organisations such as TISPA (Tanzanian ISPA) and ISPA South Africa have issued their suggestions. I believe that other organisations have done the same too. I would strongly suggest looking at these suggestions and for the majority of seats, voting as they suggest.

e.g.  (ISPA/ZANOG)

Seat 1 (North Africa) - Abdelaziz Hilali

Seat 2 (West Africa) - Emmanuel Adewale Adedokun

Seat 3 (Indian Ocean) - Kaleem Usmani

Seat 4 (Central Africa) - Laurent Ntumba

Seat 5 (Southern Africa) - Carla Sanderson

Seat 6 (East Africa) - Fiona Asonga

Seat 7 (Non-regional/Independent 1) - Ben Roberts

There is one change I would suggest though, there are very few "old" Board Members mentioned in these lists. I would like to suggest voting for myself as one of the candidates for seats 7/8. The "why" is that I was a Board Member for six years from 2009. I was one of the original directors of UniForum SA (today this is ZARC) and automated the CO.ZA domain name process. In order to confirm we were doing the right thing, we attended various Internet meetings around the world. Mr Calvin Browne for example has attended almost every ICANN Meeting and I have attended almost every AFRINIC Meeting ever. My knowledge of AFRINIC is thus pretty good and I believe that this will be an important asset to the future of AFRINIC - best served as a Board Member of AFRINIC  - so, please vote for me.

Seat 8 (Non-regional/Independent 2) - Mark Elkins

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