Who can vote in EC Elections?

Only organizations with a current APNIC Member account are eligible to vote.

The person recognized by APNIC as the corporate contact controls the votes for each APNIC member organization. If you do not currently have a corporate contact appointed for your member account, you will need to submit the corporate contact form.

Only the corporate contact has the right to vote on behalf of the organization, to assign voting rights to another representative of the member organization (including other registered contacts), or to appoint a Proxy to vote on behalf of the organization.

Assigned voting rights are different from a proxy in two ways. Internal representatives are assigned voting rights, while external representatives are appointed as a proxy. Assigned voting rights remain in place until they are changed or removed and are applicable to other types of APNIC elections, while a proxy appointment is valid for only one election.

Only the corporate contact has the right to appoint a proxy to vote on behalf of a member organization. Members with voting rights only are not permitted to do this and must ask their corporate contact to appoint a proxy if they are unable to vote.

Proxies may only be appointed by completing the APNIC Proxy form. Please refer to the section, Assigning a proxy, for more information.

A corporate contact may only assign voting rights using the MyAPNIC member website. This action requires a corporate contact to access the website with a digital certificate. The contact to be given voting rights must be a registered MyAPNIC user and will require a digital certificate to be able to vote online.

Please refer to the table: Who can vote at an APNIC election?

Who can vote at the APNIC EC election?

If you are a:	What you need to vote on-line	What you need to vote on-site
corporate contact	You must have valid digital-certificate access to MyAPNIC.	Please present a valid ID on request.
Other member representative	The APNIC corporate contact for your organization must assign you voting rights. You must have valid digital-certificate access to MyAPNIC.	The APNIC corporate contact for your organization must assign you voting rights. Please present a valid ID on request.
Proxy	Online voting is not available to proxy voters.	The corporate contact of a current member organization must submit a completed proxy form to APNIC by the due date. A confirmation email from the APNIC Secretariat (24-hour turnaround). Please present a valid ID

Do you have voting rights?

If you are the corporate contact for your organization, you can check if the voting rights are assigned to you or to another person by logging into the MyAPNIC website. As the corporate contact, you can change or re-assign these voting rights.

If you have the right to vote, the EC election pages will automatically appear in your MyAPNIC account when voting opens.

Who is your corporate contact?

You can check who the corporate contact for your organization is by viewing the contact details page in MyAPNIC.