MCRGO's 11 member Board of Directors is elected in odd years for staggered four year terms. Six members of the board were elected in 2019. Five members of the board will be elected this year. Per the MCRGO By-Laws, one seat representing each region is on the ballot this year. Seats are geographically divided to ensure one region of the state does not dominate the organization. However, elected board members represent all of MCRGO's membership. Current MCRGO member may vote for candidates in any and all regions, not just the region in which they live.
We encourage members to vote through electronic ballot as it is anonymous, fast, free of postage costs, and automatically tabulated. Paper ballots are confidential but not anonymous due to the need to cross reference member numbers. Voting both electronically and by paper ballot will invalidate both ballots cast. If you already cast a paper ballot from the Summer 2021 On Target newsletter, do not attempt to vote electronically.
Candidates elected in 2021 will serve a four-year term expiring in 2025. The candidates elected shall be those who have received the highest number of votes in each region. Listed candidates applied through an application in the Spring 2021 On Target newsletter. Applications were due by July 1, 2021. Electors may write in the names of current MCRGO members not listed on the ballot. Successful write-in candidates must meet the By-Laws requirements for a Director and must accept the position before their election can be confirmed.
Electronic voting ends at midnight on September 1, 2021. Election results will be published to the MCRGO Coffee Table Facebook group on September 1, published in the September 6 Monday E'News, and in the Fall 2021 On Target newsletter.
Electronic ballots were emailed at midnight yesterday to all current MCRGO members with emails on file. Current members without emails on file have been sent a paper ballot as part of the Summer 2021 On Target newsletter. If you did not receive an electronic ballot, first confirm you are a current MCRGO member by logging in HERE. Note that receiving this Monday E'News does not mean you are a current member of MCRGO. Next, check your Spam/Junk/Trash folders of your email address on file with MCRGO. Finally, email Brady at [email protected] for member verification and to be sent a replacement electronic ballot. We will not mail out replacement paper ballots for reasons of election security.
Members with emails through Comcast, Hotmail, Yahoo, and private domains through Go Daddy may not have received an electronic ballot as those email services are often indiscriminate about auto-deleting computer generated emails.
