The Foreign Service Journal, November 2010

tee, 2101 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20037. To be valid, theymust, without excep- tion, be receivedat this addressno later than 5 p.m. on Feb. 1, 2011. Members overseas can send “AFSA channel” cablesmarked for delivery to the AFSAElectionsCommittee. Theymust be received in the State Department’s Com- munications Center within the same time limit. Faxes canbe sent to (202) 338-6820and e-mail to election@afsa.org . Alternatively, nominations can be hand-delivered to anElectionsCommittee member who will be in the AFSA office, Room1251, Department of State, from11 a.m. to noon on Feb. 1, 2011, or to an Elections Committee representative at AFSA headquarters (2101 E Street NW) during that same time period. 7. A nominee can indicate his or her acceptance of a nominationby appending a letter to the letter of nomination or by appropriate notation on that letter, or by communicating with the AFSA Elections Committee at the addresses, fax or e-mail noted above. Otherwise, anauthorized representative of the Elections Committee will commu- nicate with each nominee (excluding members who nominate themselves) as quickly as possible after the receipt of each nomination to determine whether the nominee wishes to be a candidate. Anymember whowishes to accept the nominationmust confirmhis orher accep- tance in writing through one of the chan- nels described above to theAFSAElections Committee. Anynomineewhosewrittenacceptance of nominationhas not been receivedby the ElectionsCommitteewill be considered to have declined candidacy. Election Campaign 1. All candidates nominated under the procedure outlined abovewill be given the opportunity tosubmit campaignstatements fordissemination to theAFSAmembership with the election ballots. Further information regarding such statements and editorial deadlines will be contained in the “Instructions to Candi- dates,” which will be posted by the Elect- ions Committee on the AFSA Web site (www.afsa.org/elections/) byNov. 1, 2010. 2. TheAFSAbylawsprovide that, should candidates wish to mail supplementary statements to themembership, the associ- ation will make available to them on request, and at their expense, the mem- bership mailing list or address labels. Further information on this and other campaign procedures will be included in the “Instructions toCandidates”mentioned above. Voting Ballots will be distributed on or about March 28, 2011, to each person who is a regularAFSAmember as ofMarch1, 2011. Candidates or their representatives mayobserve the ballot distributionprocess if they so desire. Each member may cast one vote for president, secretary, treasurer and, inaddi- tion, one vote for a constituency vice pres- ident and each representative position in the member’s constituency. Votes may be cast by voting for candi- dates listedon the official ballot, or bywrit- ing in the name(s) of member(s) eligible as of Feb. 1, 2011, or by doing both. To be valid, a ballot must be received by June 1, 2011, at the address indicatedon the envelope accompanying the ballot. Moredetailedballoting instructionswill accompany the ballots. Vote Counting and Announcement of Results Onor about June 2, 2011, the Elections Committee will count the ballots and declare elected the candidate receiving the greatest number of votes for eachposition. Candidates or their representatives may be present during the tally and may challenge the validity of any vote or the eli- gibility of any voter. The committee will informcandidates individually of the election results by the swiftest possiblemeans andwill publish the names of all elected candidates in the next issue of the Foreign Service Journal . The elected candidates will take office on July 15, 2011, as provided in the bylaws. Complaints or Challenges Members may file a written protest or complaint about the conduct of the 2011 electionor theoutcomeof theelection. Such protest, complaint or challenge should be filed as soon as possible but no later than 10 days from the announcement of the results of the election, and should be addressed to Election Supervisor Alison Dunn U.S. Department of Labor, OLMS Washington District Office 800 North Capitol Street NW Suite 120 Washington, DC 20002-4244 Fax: (202) 513-7301 These protest procedures are in lieu of AFSA’s normal procedures. ❏ A F S A N E W S NOV EMB E R 2 0 1 0 / F OR E I GN S E R V I C E J OU R N A L 67 ELECTIONS COMMITTEE MEMBERS Hon. George F. Jones, Chair georgejones@cox.net (703) 385-5741 Donald Businger donald.businger@trade.gov (011) (4131) 357-7270 Quintin Gray quintin.gray@fas.usda.gov (202) 647-9087, ext. 0 Denise JobinWelch jobinwelchdi@state.gov (202) 632-9365 David Salazar salazardr@state.gov (202) 312-9630 Richard Thompson risath@aol.com (301) 229-6442 STAFF Ian Houston, Executive Director houston@afsa.org (202) 944-5505 Sharon Papp, General Counsel papps@state.gov (202) 647-8160 Janet Hedrick, Director, Member Services hedrick@afsa.org (703) 203-9002 Amy McKeever, mckeever@afsa.org (202) 338-4045, ext. 516 AFSA News Editor OLMS ELECTION SUPERVISOR Alison Dunn AFSAelectionsupervisor@dol.gov (202) 513-7314