ICANN/DNSO

1. A ballot is prepared.

   A ballot starts with line "BEGIN" and ends with line "END__".

   It is like this:

   REQUEST: Please mark a preference, using '1' for the most favored
   REQUEST: candidate, '2' for the second, and so on.
   REQUEST: There is no requirement to mark all names.
   REQUEST: This ballot is From: 'gavote@dnso.org' -- please reply without CC to any list.
   IMPORTANT: Please do not strip ballot,
   IMPORTANT: it  MUST start with line BEGIN:
   IMPORTANT: it  MUST end   with line END__:.
   IMPORTANT: and MUST contain all lines in between.
   
    BEGIN:b04:KabcdZ:FirstName_LastName:email@address.somewhere:SVP-reply
    b04:KabcdZ:[ ] Danny Younger
    b04:KabcdZ:[ ] Eric Hugh Dierker
    b04:KabcdZ:[ ] Jonathan Weinberg
    b04:KabcdZ:[ ] Patrick Corliss
    END__:b04:KabcdZ:FirstName_LastName:email@address.somewhere:SVP-reply
   
   

2. Ballot is assigned a number (first field in a line), here "b04" -- ballot number 04 (it is the fourth ballot submitted to the GA vote since January 2000).

3. Ballot is personalised. Each line indicates who is voting.

4. The second field, here between "b04" and "FirstName_LastName", indicate a personalised code given for this ballot to this person. A personalised code is 6 caracteres, starting with "K", ending with "Z", here "KabcdZ".

5. Do not edit a ballot. Just put a number between square brackets [ ] to rank candidates.

   You cast one vote, no more.

6. A ballot will arrive From: "gavote@dnso.org" -- please reply without CC to any list.

7. You will receive an aknowledge of your ballot within 48 hours.

8. "Election Rules for the DNSO GA V0.2" approved on 23 March 2001 http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2001.GA-chair-election-rules-v0.2.html