Subj : Call for Nominations for ARRL Director and Vice Director
To   : QST
From : ARRL de WD1CKS
Date : Mon Jul 01 2024 07:33 pm

 07/01/2024 

Attention: Full ARRL members in the Central, Hudson, New England, Northwestern,
and Roanoke Divisions. You have the opportunity to choose a Director and Vice
Director to represent you for a 3-year term beginning January 1, 2025.

ARRL is governed by its Board of Directors. A voting Director is chosen by
ballot by the full (licensed) ARRL members in each of its 15 Divisions. Vice
Directors who serve in the absence of the Director at a Board meeting and
succeed to the position of Director should a vacancy occur are chosen at the
same time. Elections are held in five Divisions per year. It takes only 10 full
members in a Division to nominate a candidate for either office.

Qualifications 

The eligibility of nominees for the positions of ARRL Director and Vice
Director will be reviewed by the Ethics & Elections Committee, composed of
three Directors not subject to election this year: Mickey Baker, N4MB; Jeff
Ryan, KORM, and Scott Yonally, N8SY. A nominee must be at least 21 years old
and must have been licensed and a full member of ARRL for a continuous term of
at least 4 years immediately preceding nomination. Each nominee must provide
information concerning their employment, ownership, investment interests, and
other financial arrangements to ensure compliance with the Conflict of Interest
Policy (see Article 12 of the ARRL Articles of Association and Bylaws 18 - 24),
available at www.arrl.org/general-information[1]. The qualifications for
Director and Vice Director are identical. All the powers of the Director are
transferred to the Vice Director in the event of the Director's resignation,
recall, removal outside the Division, inability to serve, or death.

Nomination Procedure 

Step 1: Obtain official nominating petition forms. Starting July 1, any full
member residing in a Division where there is an election may request an
official nominating petition package in writing, either by letter or via email,
to execadmin@arrl.org[2]. The request must reach the ARRL Secretary no later
than noon EDT on Friday, August 9, 2024. If you are seriously considering
running or nominating someone to run, please don't wait until the last minute
to request the forms; the deadline for submitting a completed petition form is
just 1 week later. 

Step 2: Complete the questionnaire and obtain signatures. Only the official
form may be used. The candidate must complete page one, providing the
information required to determine eligibility, certifying its accuracy, and
agreeing to assume the office if elected. To be valid, a nominating petition
must name the candidate and must bear the signatures of 10 full members of the
Division. 

Step 3: Submit the petition form. The completed form must reach the Secretary
no later than noon EDT on Friday, August 16, 2024. The submission may be made
by electronic transmission of images (i.e., a PDF or JPEG attachment to an
email) or facsimile provided that upon request, the original documents are
received by the Secretary within 7 days of the request. A person who is
nominated for both Director and Vice Director may choose to decline the
nomination for Director; otherwise, the nomination for Director will stand and
that for Vice Director will be void.

On Monday, August 19, 2024, the Secretary will notify each candidate of the
name and call sign of each other candidate for the same office. Candidates will
then have until Friday, August 30, 2024, to submit a 300-word statement and a
photograph if they desire those to be made available to voters in accordance
with instructions that will be supplied.

Balloting 

If there is only one eligible candidate for an office, he or she will be
declared elected by the Ethics & Elections Committee. If there is more than one
eligible candidate for an office, the full members in that Division who are in
good standing as of September 10, 2024, will have the opportunity to cast
ballots. Official voting documents will be mailed to members who are eligible
to vote no later than October 1, 2024. Votes must be electronically cast, or
completed paper ballots must be received at the designated PO Box in the
envelope provided, by noon Eastern Time on Friday, November 15, 2024. The
candidate receiving the most votes will be declared the winner that day.

Absentee Ballots 

A full member who is residing temporarily outside his or her home Division,
including overseas, may arrange to vote in the home Division by notifying the
Secretary before September 6, 2024, giving their current mailing address as
reflected in the ARRL membership records (i.e., QST mailing address) and the
reason that another Division is considered home. Members with overseas military
addresses should take special note of this provision; in the absence of
information received to the contrary, ballots will be sent to them based on
their postal addresses.

The Incumbents 

The incumbent Directors and Vice Directors, respectively, in the five Divisions
in which elections will be held this year are:

Central: Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, Director, and Brent Walls, N9BA, Vice
Director 

Hudson: Nomar Vizcarrondo, NP4H, Director, and Ed Wilson, N2XDD, Vice Director