[Leaplist] election nominations

[John Simpson]

hello all-

i'm sending this message in my capacity as a member of this year's  
election committee.

at the meeting on 7/19 we held nominations for the various board  
positions. the following people were nominated:

for president:
	phil barnett

for vice president:
	fuzzy connor

for secretary:
	david billsbrough

for treasurer:
	hale pringle

for director at large (three positions):
	derek konigsberg
	enrique gomez
	tom foster
	bruce metcalf

nominations are now closed, and according to LEAP's by-laws, write-in  
votes are not allowed.

the election will take place at next month's meeting, 2007-08-16,  
probably about halfway through the meeting. anybody who is a "member  
in good standing" (i.e. you've paid your $35 dues for 2007-2008) at  
that time is eligible to vote.

as you can see, the only contested positions are "director at large"-  
there are four names, and each voter will be able to choose up to  
three of them.

the ballots will be prepared, distributed, collected, and counted by  
the election committee, which consists of myself (john simpson), fred  
moore, and aaron morrison. unless there is a tie, the election  
committee will certify the counts, announce the results, and present  
the certified counts and the ballots to the new secretary.

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in addition, one of the election committee members, fred moore, has  
had to withdraw himself from the election committee, because he'll be  
out of town during the election meeting. we need one volunteer to  
take his place. you must be a "member in good standing", which means  
that you need to have paid your 2007-2008 dues by the time the  
election starts (i.e. at the installfest on 8/4, or at the beginning  
of the meeting on 8/16) and you cannot be somebody who has been  
nominated for an office (i.e. on the list above.) you also have to be  
100% sure that you WILL be at the election meeting on 8/16.

your "duties" will be to help conduct the election itself- basically  
passing out ballots to everybody who is a "member in good standing",  
collecting them after a minute or two, going with us down the hall to  
count them, and signing a paper with your counts.

if anybody is interested, let us know on the leaplist and/or  
leapbusiness mailing lists.

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one thing i need to know, and probably the treasurer would be the one  
to tell me, is how many "members in good standing" there are in the  
group, so i know how many ballots to print. of course i will have  
extra ballots in case more people sign up at the meeting before the  
election, but i need to know roughly how many we need- i don't want  
to print 60 ballots of there are only 12 people voting.

also, as a reminder to everybody... the current memberships expire at  
the beginning of next month's meeting. if you want to vote, or  
especially if you've been nominated and you intend to run, then you  
need to bring your $35 with you. hale, you may want to be there early  
with the receipt book and the blank membership cards... and also make  
sure you bring them to the installfest on 8/4, if you come.

and if you've already paid for 2007-2008, make sure you have your  
membership card with you, or your receipt showing payment. that's how  
we (the election committee) are going to know who gets a ballot and  
who doesn't.

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| John M. Simpson    ---   KG4ZOW   ---    Programmer At Large |
| http://www.jms1.net/                         <jms1 at jms1.net> |
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