PEF members: Check out your PEF Election Guide; Ballots due June 26

By SHERRY HALBROOK
If you are a PEF member, you should find a 2006 Election Guide (candidate directory) supplement in your copy of this Communicator.

Please take a few minutes to carefully review it before completing and mailing your ballot in PEF’s Triennial Elections for all statewide, regional and Executive Board offices.

Ballots will be mailed to members June 5 and must be received by the American Arbitration Association in New York City by 5 p.m. June 26 for counting on June 27.

The Election Guide is only included in copies of this magazine going to PEF members, because only they are allowed to vote on candidates for PEF offices. Although feepayers, retirees and others may receive The Communicator, they are ineligible to vote in PEF elections.

The Election Guide lists some offices (including nine of the 12 regional coordinator positions) which were filled automatically. This occurred when only one candidate for an office was certified by the PEF Elections Committee based on the timely submission of the required number of eligible signatures on nominating petitions. No balloting is necessary for these offices and board seats.

In other cases, no one submitted petitions with sufficient eligible signatures for nomination. Since no candidates were certified for these seats, they will be the subject of special elections in the fall.

Where two or more candidates for an office or seat were certified, balloting will be conducted.

All certified candidates were eligible to submit their photos and biographical or campaign information for inclusion in the Election Guide.

The limits on the amount of information and other rules for submissions to the Election Guide are specified in the Election Rules (published in the February 2006 issue of The Communicator). If a candidate submitted more information than allowed, it was cut back to the last full sentence.

The rules allow for no editing, corrections or changes by PEF to the candidates’ information, nor do they allow for any alteration by PEF of the submitted photos, other than enlargement or reduction to make them fit the allotted space.

The Communicator June 2006

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