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        <div dir="ltr">The voting period for Ballot Forum-9 has ended
          and the <b>Ballot has Passed</b>.  Here are the <span
class="gmail-m_-1400934355298553810gmail-m_-3189430313098815752gmail-m_213041261273756038gmail-il">results</span>:<br>
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        <div dir="ltr"><u><b>Voting by Certificate Issuers – 11 votes
              total including abstentions</b></u><br>
          <ul>
            <li><b>11 Yes votes:</b> <span
                style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;"
data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Chunghwa
                Telecom, DarkMatter, DigiCert, Disig, eMudhra, Entrust
                Datacard, GDCA, GlobalSign, HARICA, SHECA, SecureTrust
                (former Trustwave)"}"
data-sheets-userformat="{"2":4281,"3":{"1":0,"3":1},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"8":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"10":2,"15":"Arial"}"
                data-sheets-formula="=join(",
",TRANSPOSE(IFERROR(filter(R9C1:R67C1,R9C[0]:R67C[0]="Y"))))">Chunghwa
                Telecom, DarkMatter, DigiCert, Disig, eMudhra, Entrust
                Datacard, GDCA, GlobalSign, HARICA, SHECA, SecureTrust.</span>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal"></span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal"></span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal"></span> <br>
            </li>
            <li><b>0 No votes:</b> <br>
            </li>
            <li><b>0 Abstain:</b> <br>
            </li>
          </ul>
          100% of voting Certificate Issuers voted in favor.</div>
        <div><u><b><br>
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        <div dir="ltr"><u><b>Voting by Certificate Consumers – 3 votes
              total including abstentions</b></u><br>
          <ul>
            <li><b>3 Yes votes: </b><span
                style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal"><span
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data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Cisco,
                    Microsoft, Mozilla"}"
data-sheets-userformat="{"2":4281,"3":{"1":0,"3":1},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"8":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":[null,2,0]},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"10":2,"15":"Arial"}"
                    data-sheets-formula="=join(",
",TRANSPOSE(IFERROR(filter(R74C1:R81C1,R74C[0]:R81C[0]="Y"))))">Cisco,
                    Microsoft, Mozilla</span>
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            <li><b>0 No votes:</b></li>
            <li><b>0 Abstain: </b></li>
          </ul>
          100% of voting Certificate Consumers voted in favor<br>
          <b><br>
          </b></div>
        <div dir="ltr"><b>Relevant Bylaw references
</b><br>
          Bylaw 2.3(f) requires:<br>
          <br>
          a "yes" vote by two-thirds of Certificate Issuer votes and
          50%-plus-one Certificate Consumer votes for approval.  Votes
          to abstain are not counted for this purpose.  This requirement
          was met for both Certificate Issuers and Certificate
          Consumers.<br>
          at least one Certificate Issuer and one Certificate Consumer
          Member must vote in favor of a ballot for the ballot to be
          adopted. This requirement was also met.
<br>
          Under Bylaw 2.3(g), "a ballot <span
class="gmail-m_-1400934355298553810gmail-m_-3189430313098815752gmail-m_213041261273756038gmail-il">result</span>
          will be considered valid only when more than half of the
          number of currently active Members has participated". Votes to
          abstain are counted in determining a quorum.</div>
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        <div>21 member companies attended the last teleconference, and
          quorum was updated accordingly. Half of currently active
          Members as of the start of voting was <b>10</b>, so quorum
          was<b> 11 votes</b> –<u> quorum was met</u>.</div>
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