Country Certification Results
Summary of Received CC Bylaws, 2017 (All CC data in)
Membership count 2017, January 31, midnight Hawaii time
Schedule for Membership Certification, 2017
January 31 - the IT team will create a last snapshot of your country membership list
February 10 - by February 10th, the secretary will have sent you your membership count along with the membership verification form
February 20 - all membership verification forms are due
More details:
On January 31, in accordance with the DA Charter, the Global IT Committee has taken a snapshot of the membership database. This snapshot is the data for the membership certification process. That means that any changes to the membership database made after the snapshot — including updates to the Last Verified Date field — will not be reflected in the membership count. (The time of the database snapshot will be midnight Hawaii time on Jan 31, which is February 1, 0800 UTC.)
Thanks to our IT team's swift work, we can now send out information about how you can find your membership count based on the snapshot report and a certification form. (As always, many thanks to our IT volunteers, who do all the work to get membership counts from the snapshot on January 31.)
If you have any questions and would like to request your detailed files, please contact the IT help desk at IT_help@democratsabroad.org.
By February 20, each Country Committee Chair must send in their completed certification form, with the virtual signature of the Chair and the Secretary, to me at secretary@democratsabroad.org.
A Country Committee Chair may challenge the membership count for his or her Country Committee by submitting a different number and indicating on the certification form that the submitted number is not the same as that provided in the database snapshot report. If you have a challenge, I will work with the Country Committee Chair and the Regional Vice Chair to resolve the discrepancy.
Keep in mind that certifying your membership count and sending your current bylaws are requirements for compliance with the DA Charter. Country Committees that are deemed out of compliance will not have votes at the DPCA Global Meeting. The final vote allocations depend on which Country Committees are in compliance and the final membership counts.
I will release the vote allocations in the second quarter of the year, after receiving notifications from Country Committees that they have scheduled an AGM to be held by June 30th of this year. The deadline for those notifications is March 28th this year.
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Process for Membership Certification, 2017
The process for certifying your membership is straightforward:
1. Look your membership count number up here (login/pwd = dems/dpca)
2. Add your count to the following certification form
3. Sign. Send in to secretary@democratsabroad.org.