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In order to ensure continuous renewal of ISSI's governing body, a partial board member election is launched in every second year. In accordance with this principle, in November 2008 the ISSI board initiated to vote about 3 board member positions fallen vacant as a consequence of voluntary resignation. All ISSI members in good standing were entitled to take part in the nominating and voting procedures and were informed about the details accordingly. Both the nomination and the voting took place online, directly on the ISSI website. After logging in to the "members only" area of the ISSI website voters could submit their nominations (and later, in the second and third round, their votes) anonimously. In the first turn each ISSI member had the opportunity to nominate 3 potential board members. The first (nominating) turn ended up with 38 candidates, of which 30 accepted the nomination. (1 nominee refused it, 6 nominees did not reply at all and 1 nominee replied after the deadline of declaration of intent.) The call for the actual voting was announced in mid-December 2008. Once again, ISSI members were offered to vote for three nominees out of those 30 candidates who had accepted their nominations after the first round. After counting the votes it turned out that while the first two positions could unambiguously be determined on the basis of the votes (Peter Ingwersen: 8,08% and Aparna Basu: 7,07% of all votes), a very tight outcome caused a tie in case of the third board member position: Sujit Bhattacharya, Grant Lewison and Henk Moed received 6.06% of all the votes, each. This unforeseen situation forced the ISSI board to call on all the ISSI members to cast a vote for the third time in January. Members were asked to select only one of the 3 nominees in question. In the end Sujit Bhattacharya received 21.1%, Grant Lewison received 42,1% and Henk Moed received 36,8% of all the votes of the third round. That is, on 01 February 2009 the latest partial board member election was closed with the following end-result: the Society’s renewed board consists of Judit Bar-Ilan, Aparna Basu, Wolfgang Glänzel, Peter Ingwersen, Grant Lewison, Martin Meyer, Olle Persson and Ronald Rousseau.