highflight Posted September 22, 2023 Report Posted September 22, 2023 The results of this year’s officer elections and amendment referendum have been tabulated and verified, and are available for your review below. In short, all officers were running unopposed, and were confirmed by the membership's vote. All proposed amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws were approved by a majority of a sufficient number of the membership, to make a valid response as required in the By-Laws. The specific totals for each line item are included below. My apologies for the abundance of white space. Formatting for the Forum is not my strongest skill. The Executive Board of IPMS/USA appreciates your participation in the election process. Your participation and feedback are critical to the success of our Society. Rob Booth IPMS/USA Secretary ipmssec@ipmsusa.org 2023 IPMS/USA Officer Election Results September 18,2023 Online Paper Total President David Lockhart 606 139 745 John Figueroa* 0 1 1 Abstain 152 10 162 First Vice President Phil Peterson 676 141 817 Gino Dykstra* 0 1 1 Abstain 82 8 90 Second Vice President Len Pilhofer 684 142 826 Abstain 74 8 82 Director of Local Chapters John Figueroa 690 143 833 Abstain 68 7 75 Historian/Publications Director Ro Annis 692 142 834 Abstain 66 8 74 Secretary Rob Booth 703 141 844 Abstain 55 9 64 Recruitment/Retention Secretary David Knights 689 141 830 Alan Welch* 1 1 Abstain 69 8 77 Total votes 758 150 908 * indicates write-in candidate C&BL Amendment Referendum results are as follows: Amendment 1: Yes 766 No 70 PASSED Amendment 2: Yes 741 No 97 PASSED Amendment 3: Yes 713 No 123 PASSED Amendment 4: Yes 767 No 69 PASSED Amendment 5: Yes 759 No 78 PASSED Amendment 6: Yes 752 No 84 PASSED Amendment 7: Yes 754 No 81 PASSED Amendment 8: Yes 750 No 86 PASSED Amendment 9: Yes 774 No 61 PASSED Amendment 10: Yes 766 No 69 PASSED Amendment 11: Yes 750 No 84 PASSED Amendment 12: Yes 657 No 163 PASSED* IPMS/USA Membership Total as of 9/1/23: 4,921 10% of membership total votes required = 492 675 Votes received online 165 Votes received via Mail/Ballot Box 840 Total Ballots Eligible = 17% of the membership, and 348 votes above the threshold required by the By-Laws. *Due to an error in the “Yes” or “No” choices in the online poll on Amendment 12, the word “Option” appeared instead. This only affected the ballot for those choosing to vote for each Amendment individually. Because of this we could not determine if the individual online votes for Amendment 12 were yes or no, so we counted them all as no. Those who voted Yes for all 12 Amendments as a whole far outnumbered the no votes. As you can see this had no impact on the outcome. None of the other Amendments had this issue.
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