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CORRECTION TO CHAPTER 17 DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES
ELECTION
The Delegate election will be re-held at the June 22, 2011 chapter
meeting with ballots prepared and votes cast correctly. At that
meeting the election results will be announced.
As stated in the April 2011 Chapter 17 newsletter “the chapter is in need of
one Delegate and Alternate Delegates to attend the Delegate Assembly in
August. Nomination forms will be submitted at our meeting in April and we
will have election of delegates at the next meeting in June 2011.”
Nomination forms were submitted by 4 members, Mark Flahan, Steve
Haley, Gloria Koch and Patricia O’Neil. After much discussion regading
confusion of deadline for information in Sacramento, an election was held at
the April meeting.
A protest was filed stating:
1. Lack of 30 day notice for the election.
2. Candidates were not provided the opportunity to submit a 100 word
statement or make a verbal presentation before the membership,
and
3. Ballots were not prepared properly
4. Votes were not registered correctly
The April newsletter stated the election would be held at the June 2011
chapter meeting – this was more than a 30 day notice. The election being
done at the April meeting did not fall within the 30 day guideline (19 days
from date newsletter was mailed) and instructions in the April newsletter.
Ballots were created by hand and members given erroneous instructions as
to how to cast votes. Being that there is only one available delegate seat
open each member should have cast 1 vote. They were instructed to cast
votes in order of 1 thru 4 of how they wanted the candidates elected. This
was confusing and possibly caused some invalid casting of ballots.
The protest has been accepted and a new election will be held at the June
meeting.
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