<div><div dir="auto">Hi Emem,</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kindly clarify. If people will already be participating in the meeting virtually, what will stop them from using the ‘raise hand’ feature? What basis do you have to say that this cannot work in our region? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sarah </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 22:08, Emem William <<a href="mailto:dwizard65@gmail.com">dwizard65@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Dear All, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I can recollect that a similar proposal was proposed as a policy and it was overwhelmingly rejected in Angola. The current community totally rejected the policy no one except the authors supported the idea because we know it can't work in this region. Using online voting now would be like passing the policy using the backdoor. Am sure Jordie would like this idea and hence his enthusiasm. However my candid opinion is that we can't do this. The most appropriate way forward is to allow the Co chair who has been doing a fantastic job to continue for another 12 months or till the next face to face meeting. The community that voted him in Kampala still have confidence in him. In any case even with an online election he would still likely win but I don't want polices to be passed through the back door. Therefore I think the most appropriate way for this has been suggested as an extension for the co-chair who's seat would have been contested.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Emem E. William<br><br></div></div>
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