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Only one vote is allowed per registered member. You cannot reverse/cancel the vote cast by your organisation.

AFRINIC allows only 1 vote per Resource Member.The Administrative contacts must confer and agree as to who shall be casting the vote for the organisation.

1. Log in on https://my.afrinic.net
2. Go to User Administration
3. Select Voter for the Contact 

A technical contact can vote online as long as he/she has been given Voter rights by the Administrative contact.

The registered Administrative contact of your organisation can vote.

1. In the case of PDWG co-chairs, members of the community are allowed to elect them.
2. Only Resource Members in good standing are allowed to elect the Governance Committee members, Registered Members(BoD) and the ASO-AC members. 

The Bylaws article 13.2 states that the Board must establish an election process.

13.2 “The election of the Directors of the company shall be carried out
in line with the Election process approved by the Board”.

The election process clause 8.1 refers to the eligibility to vote

8.1. Eligibility to vote
Only organisations and persons fulfilling the following criteria are able to vote:
Any AFRINIC Resource Member in good standing.
All Registered Members

AFRINIC denies services(including voting for elections) to members who are not in good standing.  In the case of voting, the organisation will not be able to vote either online or on-site unless the outstanding balance has been cleared.

All the outstanding invoices and related outstanding amount including penalty fees as displayed on the MyAFRINIC portal must be settled.

Login to the MyAFRINIC portal, and a message should appear on the screen if your organisation is not in good standing. To be sure, you can also view your statement of account and check whether there is an unpaid balance.

If there is an unpaid balance, check whether it’s from an invoice that is overdue (in which case the member is not in good standing), or an invoice that has not yet reached its due date (in which case the member is still in good standing, until the due date arrives).

AFRINIC holds various types of elections notably:-

1. Election of Governance Committee
2. Election of Registered Members( Board of Directors)
3. Election of PDWG co-chairs
4. Election of ASO-AC members 

1. The AFRINIC Board Elections are held at each AFRINIC Annual General Meeting (AGMM), which is conducted around May/June every year.
2. PDWG co-chairs are elected on the Policy Day of the AFRINIC meeting.

Online and onsite voting at these meetings are allowed.