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

[Eric Fort]

Let’s not get into electronic voting. Too much opportunity to “hack the vote”.   It’s unfortunate that an error was made and not caught prior to printing and mailing but electronic voting is not the answer. 

Eric
Af6ep 

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> On Jul 17, 2018, at 3:40 PM, Gabriel Zeifman <gabrielzeifman at gmail.com> 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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