ACJS National Election Results Announced

ACJS 2011 National Election Results

Please join me in congratulating the individuals who were elected to serve on the ACJS Executive Board beginning at the Friday Board meeting, March 16, 2012, in New York City, New York:

Second Vice President – Brian Payne

Trustee-at-Large – Philip L. Reichel

Region 4 Trustee – David R. Montague

This year’s elections were conducted online and ACJS used Votenet Solutions, Inc. for the elections.  Votenet Solutions, Inc. is the leading provider of secure on-demand voting and nominations software and election consulting for private organizations such as membership associations, trade associations, award shows, realtor organizations, universities, law firms, homeowner associations, corporations, and financial institutions.  Since 2001, Votenet's software has delivered more than 8,000 online ballots and served over 6,000,000 voters worldwide.

The Teller’s Committee Report is attached for your information.  The report includes the candidates’ names for each office.  This report was accepted by the ACJS Executive Board. 

Respectfully submitted,

James W. Marquart

Chair, ACJS Nominations and Elections Committee

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Teller’s Committee Report

To: James W. Marquart, Past President of ACJS and Melissa Barlow, President of ACJS

From: Richard R. Bennett, Chair of the Tellers Committee

Date: February 6, 2012

Re: Election Results of the 2011 ACJS Election.

This is the second time that the election for ACJS Executive Board officers was conducted using an internet service.  ACJS contracted with Votenet Solutions to orchestrate the 2010 elections as well as the 2011 elections.  The committee cannot evaluate the veracity of the results supplied to us from Votenet Solutions, but the total number of votes cast for Second Vice President  is similar to the number of votes cast last year for that same position.  In addition, the closest results were for the position of Second Vice President. This was very similar to last year’s election.  The committee (of members in good standing) communicated via the internet.  Each member logged on to Votenet Solution’s web site, recorded the number of votes received by each candidate and identified the winner of the election. The tally committee members are Richard R. Bennett of the American University; Stephanie Mizrahi of California State University, Sacramento; Brandon Applegate, University of South Carolina; Robert Worley of Texas A&M University Central Texas and Melissa W. Burek of Bowling Green State University.

The following are the committee-certified results of the election:

2nd Vice President:

Brian Payne (elected)

Barbara A. Sims

Trustee-at-Large:

Eric G. Lambert

Philip L. Reichel (elected)

The one regional election had the following result:

Region 4 Trustee:

David R. Montague (elected)

The committee is happy to submit this report to the Past and Present Presidents of ACJS.  With this memo, we have executed our duties and disbanded the committee.  I wish to thank the four other committee members for their service to ACJS.

Sincerely,

Richard R. Bennett

Chair of the Tellers Committee of ACJS