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General Election Voting Dates for President and Even-Numbered Call Area Directors
Candidates for Area Director must nominate themselves by announcing their candidacy on one of the Club's scheduled nets and informing the Club President and Chair of the Board, who will ensure that they are placed on the ballot. Nominations for Area Director must be on one of the Club's scheduled nets from November 1st through November 30th.
Candidates for President or Vice-President must be a club member and be nominated by his/her own Area Director. In the absence of the Area Director, nominations must be made by the Assistant Area Director at a BoD meeting.
Nominations for President or Vice President may be made at any BoD meeting from November 1st until adjournment of the regularly scheduled BoD meeting for December.
The 3905 Century Club general elections are held every year from Jan. 1 through Jan. 15.
Presidents, and even-numbered Area Directors are elected on even-numbered years.
Vice-Presidents, odd-numbered Area Directors, and DX Area Director are elected on odd-numbered years.
The election balloting period for the General Election:
All members may vote for President and Vice-President.
Members whose address of record for a given call area may vote for the Area Director of that call area.
Membership is defined in the by-laws as a licensee who has earned a 100-point award on any band/mode.
The nominated candidates on the ballot along with their bio's are found on the candidate bios page.
Members have four (4) methods available to vote; however only one method is allowed for a vote to be counted, and the first vote received by any of the following methods will be the one counted:
Members must be registered with the 3905ccn.org website and verified by the Club Information Officer prior to the end of the last day of voting (Jan 15 UTC - see "When are elections held?" above).
Members need only register once but are encouraged to register early so as to resolve any delays in the registration process.
Once you are registered, you can use your member information to login to the 3905ccn.org.
Online voting will open on the first day of the election and close at the end of the last day of voting (see "When are elections held?" above).
Voting online will be open on the online voting page.
A step-by-step guide to online voting is available HERE
Send an before the end of the last day of voting (Jan 15 - see "When are elections held?" above).
That will send an email to both of the election monitors
You may copy the email ballot form to use in your email.
The email must come from your email of record with the club.
If you are planning to vote using this method you should to verify your email of record with the club.
Send a letter to both Election Monitors
Virgil C. Warren, W9WWG
1735 W 1000 N
Fountaintown, IN 46130
Kirk D. Frazier, AA1NA
24 Homewood Point
Hattiesburg, MS 39402
You may print and use the mail-in ballot form.
Since postal mail is not timely, members are encouraged to send their vote by postal mail as early as possible, and must be received by the election monitors by Jan. 15 for the Regular Election.
Verbal ballots may be cast on the air January 14 (local) / Jan 15 (UTC) on the 3905 CCN 40m SSB nets
and the 3905 CCN 75m SSB nets.
Each vote on the air must include the member's callsign, 100-pt award number and the band that award number was awarded on,
their choice for President and their choice for Area Director of the area they reside in if it is an EVEN-numbered call area.
Relays may be used to get the vote to the recorders.
The Net Control Station will record these votes and then send an email with the above information to both election monitors immediately following the conclusion of voting.
A reminder that the election monitors are Virgil C. Warren, W9WWG and Kirk D. Frazier, AA1NA
