<div dir="ltr">According to the election notes I have here, I strongly assume that the chair calculated with 17 votes cast and an absolute majority was necessary.<div style>However I got only 16 ballot papers.<br>I assume the missing vote could be by the UK who decided to generally abstain; however there is no such sheet among the ballot papers (in contrast to all other elections, where there was a blank UK ballot sheet provided).<br>
I will back check ASAP with the preliminary video recordings I got from Wolfgang Preiss whether it could be inferred that UK cast an abstention vote there.</div><div style><br></div><div style>-pat</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Mozart Palmer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mozart.palmer@pp-international.net" target="_blank">mozart.palmer@pp-international.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Is there a reason why there are only five members of the Court of Arbitration elected? The statutes provide for up to seven, meaning that Arturo and Andrew should be elected according to the results.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 16 May 2013 05:46, Pat Mächler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick.maechler@pp-international.net" target="_blank">patrick.maechler@pp-international.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear pirates,</div><div><br></div><div>Please find here the current status of the minutes of the PPI GA 2013. I would be grateful if you could provide corrections to me via mail.</div>
<div>4 weeks afterwards the minutes will be automatically accepted according to the RoP.</div><div><br></div><a href="http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Conference_2013/GA_meeting/Minutes" target="_blank">http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Conference_2013/GA_meeting/Minutes</a><br>
<div><br></div><div>You can blame the delay on me; part of the problem was, that I wanted to back check the recordings about the member application ballots (they were too fast).</div><div><br></div><div>
fair winds</div><div>Pat / Valio / vvv</div></div>
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