<div dir="ltr"><div>The following is according to my visual observations on said recordings, that I preliminary recieved</div><div>The times mentionned are relative to the video; not actual daytime</div><div><br></div><div>
at 4:30:20 the chair (Sven) announces that the ballot papers are prepared and the he CoA vote</div><div>for the next 95 seconds Sven signs 16 voting cards (acoording to visual calculation) and </div><div>hands out election ballot sheets to delegates and proxies along with the chair assistant (Denis)</div>
<div><br></div><div>at 4:32:10 Sven announces the vote to be open (for 4 minutes) and leaves the recording picture</div><div>at 4:32:40 he re-enters to the recording picture (returns to the table to answer questions)</div>
<div>at 4:33:10 he leaves the table again</div><div>at 4:35:00 he re-enters to the recording picture</div><div>at 4:36:30 Denis leaves the recording picture</div><div>at 4:36:40 Sven leaves the recording picture</div><div>
around 4:37:23 Sven and Denis are entering and leaving the recording picture within 5 seconds</div><div>at 4:42:00 the camera angle turns towards right; Sven and Denis can be seen; about 50% of the chair table can be seen </div>
<div>at 4:42:20 they walk to the left side; Sven can't be seen anymore</div><div>at 4:42:25 Denis walks out of the recording picture</div><div>at 4:42:30 the camera turns right again (the chair table can be seen for about 75%); Sven sits at the table</div>
<div>at 4:42:33 Sven says that 17 votes were recieved, the quorum is at 9 votes and that those 5 candidates were elected</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Pat Mächler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick.maechler@pp-international.net" target="_blank">patrick.maechler@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">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>
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><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>
-pat</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><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>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><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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