The stakeholders are going to vote for the Notary, but how is it's going to take place and when?
The current plan for the first election is that the voting would happen when people redeem their KMD, or some short of other temporary procedure. For the later elections we must develop a better system, and about that we currently have no info. jl777 is thinking the best way to implement it.
For the first election it is possible that we don't even get 64 candidates, so there's a change there won't really be any meaningful elections. We will see.
Hopefully a way can be found to let BTCD holders still vote even if they keep staking and don't redeem before the election.
The voting has to happen after the ICO is completed.
BTCD redeem has to happen after the ICO is completed.
So it is a matter to combine BTCD redeem + voting, as the ICO redeem + voting is being done.
When there is enough votes to know the notary nodes, we start mainnet and the notaries and then distribute coins
Some details subject to change, but the above gets everybody in the same timeframe, which is what is most important with ICO coins. The actual distribution will be done with normal transactions in batches, so some will get their KMD several blocks ahead of others, but it should all happen within a few hours or less