[amsat-bb] 2018 Corrected AMSAT Board of Directors Ballots

[Frank]

I hope the error was the printing company's and that they are paying for 
the printing and mailing the second time.  That would be fair.

73,
Frank
K6FW
On 7/17/18 3:40 PM, Gabriel Zeifman wrote:
> How unfortunate that our cash strapped, technology oriented organization is
> having to waste so much money to print and mail two sets of paper ballots
> to each and every member. Seems to me that electronic voting would save the
> organization money, make voting more secure and efficient, prevent mishaps
> such as this, and prevent some members from not receiving ballots like last
> year.
>
> 73,
> Gabe
> AL6D/VE6NJH
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 2:33 PM Clayton Coleman W5PFG <tasmac at w5pfg.us> wrote:
>
>> Due to a printing error, the beige-colored ballots mailed to AMSAT-NA
>> members for the 2018 Board of Directors election on July 15, 2018 have
>> been declared void. Any of these voided ballots received at the AMSAT-NA
>> office will not be counted.
>>
>> New ballots, labeled “CORRECTED BALLOT 7/20/2018” and printed on
>> yellow-colored cardstock will be mailed to all AMSAT-NA members.
>>
>> Please vote for no more than three of the 2018 candidates:
>> Tom Clark, K3IO
>> Mark Hammond, N8MH
>> Scott Harvey, KA7FVV
>> Bruce Paige, KK5DO
>> Peter Portanova, W2JV
>>
>> The Directors positions will go to the three candidates receiving the
>> highest number of votes. In addition, there will be two alternate
>> members chosen, based on the next highest number of votes received.
>>
>> 73,
>> Clayton
>> W5PFG
>> AMSAT-NA Corporate Secretary
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