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Ballot 136 – Chair Election

Ballot 136 – Chair Election

Voting on Ballot 136 – Chair Election closed on 15 October 2014.

The Chair received “yes” votes from ANF, Buypass, Certinomis, Chunghwa Telecom, Comodo, DigiCert, Disig, Entrust, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Google, Kamu Sertifikasyon Merkezi, Logius PKIoverheid, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opentrust, Opera, SSC, StartCom, Trend Micro, TURKTRUST, TWCA, and WoSign.

Actalis, Izenpe and Symantec abstained.

Therefore, Ballot 136 passed.

Ben Wilson made the following motion, Rob Horne of Trustis, and Tim Hollebeek of TrustWave have endorsed it:

  • ## Motion begins*

RESOLVED: That Dean Coclin be elected Chair of the CA/Browser Forum for a two-year term, to begin at the expiration of Ben Wilson’s current term as Chair.

  • ## Motion ends*

The ballot review period comes into effect immediately and will close at 2100 UTC on Wednesday, 8 October 2014. Unless the motion is withdrawn during the review period, the voting period will start immediately thereafter and will close at 2100 UTC on 15 October 2014.

Votes must be cast by an on-list reply to this email thread.

A vote in favor of the motion must indicate a clear ‘yes’ in the response. A vote against must indicate a clear ‘no’ in the response. A vote to abstain must indicate a clear ‘abstain’ in the response. Unclear responses will not be counted.

The latest vote received from any representative of a voting member before the close of the voting period will be counted.

Voting members are listed at /about/membership/members/.

In order for the motion to be adopted, two thirds or more of the votes cast by members in the CA category and one half or more of the votes cast by members in the browser category must be in favor. Also, at least seven members must participate in the ballot, either by voting in favor, voting against, or abstaining.

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