Absentee ballots cast in unprecedented numbers
At Tuesday afternoon's meeting of the UUA Board of Trustees in Salt Lake City, Secretary Paul Rickter reported that more than 1,800 absentee ballots have been submitted for the UUA's presidential election. Other delegates will cast ballots at the General Assembly on Saturday, June 27, between noon and 5:30 p.m.
The number of absentee ballots this year is nearly double what it was in 2001, the last contested presidential election, when 947 (or 29 percent) of the 3,276 ballots cast were absentee ballots. Don Plante of the UUA's General Assembly and conference services staff told UU World in May that approximately 5,000 delegates are eligible to vote in the presidential election. He said that 68 percent of the eligible voters in the 2001 election cast a ballot.
Rickter told his fellow trustees that each ballot will be scanned before being processed by vote-counting software. He said that absentee ballots will be scanned before the end of Saturday's voting, but they will be counted at the same time as votes cast in person.
The Rev. Dr. Laurel Hallman of Dallas and the Rev. Peter Morales of Golden, Colo., are running to succeed the Rev. William G. Sinkford, who is completing his second term as president. See UUA.org's election section for more information about the election.
The number of absentee ballots this year is nearly double what it was in 2001, the last contested presidential election, when 947 (or 29 percent) of the 3,276 ballots cast were absentee ballots. Don Plante of the UUA's General Assembly and conference services staff told UU World in May that approximately 5,000 delegates are eligible to vote in the presidential election. He said that 68 percent of the eligible voters in the 2001 election cast a ballot.
Rickter told his fellow trustees that each ballot will be scanned before being processed by vote-counting software. He said that absentee ballots will be scanned before the end of Saturday's voting, but they will be counted at the same time as votes cast in person.
The Rev. Dr. Laurel Hallman of Dallas and the Rev. Peter Morales of Golden, Colo., are running to succeed the Rev. William G. Sinkford, who is completing his second term as president. See UUA.org's election section for more information about the election.
Labels: election, General Assembly 2009, Laurel Hallman, Paul Rickter, Peter Morales, uuga2009
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