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Bina Sabapathy elected president

as IalI holds elections 2022

OUR BUREAU
New York

n December 10, ballots were
picked up at the Hicksville
Opost office by Dr. Srinivasan
and Rekha Chichara. The ballots
were loaded into cardboard boxes
and sealed. Rekha. Chichara and
Dr. Srinivasan signed across the box
seals, with the date. On December
11 at Apna Ghar, Ms Chichara and
Dr. Srinivasan carried in the sealed
boxes and opened them in front of all
the candidates and volunteers. Every
10th envelope coding was checked.
A tech system was put in place,
such that the ballot could be seen in
real time, on a closed-circuit monitor
by the candidates and the volunteers.
Total transparency was achieved.
This is a FIRST for IALI! The for-
mal count for the election of officers
and Members at Large 2022 took
place at Apna Ghar following the
above pr0cedure. Once the election
votes had been called out, the results
were tallied three times by the mem-
bers of the Election Committee and
verified, according to a statement Members At Large in the order of mar: 502; Mr. Gary Sikka: 499; The Election Committee grate-
from Dr. Bhavani Srinivasan, Chair votes received: Dr. Ramesh Gupta: Treasurer Mr. Suresh Bhansal: 502; fully acknowledged Munish Byala
IALI Election Committee 2022. 606; Dr. Abha Bhatnagar: 601; Mrs. Secretary Mr. Pradeep Tandon: 482; for his technical support to set up the
On December 18, the formal Renu Kapoor: 600; Dr. Neeru Bham- Vice President Mr. Hargovind Gup- closed-circuit monitoring and Bobby
results were announced at the IALI bri: 591; Mrs. Kiran Arora: 575; Mr. ta: 552; and President Mrs. Bina Sa- Kalote for use of Apna Ghar for the
Annual General Body meeting. Vijay Khanna: 508; Mr. Ravindra Ku- bapathy: 502. election proceedings.

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