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 Our current election officials are:
 
-* Emmet Hikory (persia), persia at shipstone dot jp
 * Andy McCrae (andymccr), andy dot mccrae at gmail dot com
 * Ian Y. Choi (ianychoi), ianyrchoi at gmail dot com
 * Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo), knelson at openstack dot org