election vote

[tony at radiosouthrc.com]

Members:

In response to the e-mail that Frank sent to the membership, I feel that I need to clarify my position.  First, I was unaware that AMA counted the ballots in a prior election.  Somehow, I didn't get this info.  Second, I take offence to the notion that I am in complete violation of the rules.  If the person who wrote the by-laws would have put "SHALL" instead of "SHOULD", this would not have given me the option.  I read that as something that we might need to do, but not an absolute requirement.  It is apparent that this needs to be re-written.   

However, I don't see AMA counting the votes as any "fairer" that NSRCA doing it.  I have now heard about ballots that were not counted when AMA did it the last time.  I have no way of knowing if this is true or not, but just the rumor that this might have happened makes me think we would be much better off to have a completely separate organization that has nothing to do with model airplanes to count the votes.  AMA sends it's election ballots to an independent accounting firm for this, and that is what I think we should do as well.  This way, there is no connection between NSRCA and the tabulators.  

So, that is the direction I am going to go with this.  I am checking into an accounting firm that will handle this and go that way.

I have also directed the NSRCA Secretary to forward the ballot information to our new publisher and they will handle the printing and mailing of the ballot so that the NSRCA officers will be out of this loop as well.  


Tony Stillman
Radio South
3702 N. Pace Blvd.
Pensacola, FL 32505
1-800-962-7802
www.radiosouthrc.com
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