Ana voting , who can vote

As a new ANA member I don't think I can vote in this years elections . What are the prerequisites for voting for say Governor . Any help appreciated .
rzage

 

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1) ANA Member
2) Breathing

3) You have to be lucky enough for those idiots to send you a ballot.
[Hold your breath].

 

Can you call and request a ballot .
rzage

 

LOL....Frank, can we vote online?

Where's Hobo?

 

My first year of being a member I was sent a ballat. Whether that helps, IDK.

 

I'm pretty sure we'll all get the opportunity to vote...

 

Green;
Yes, we are supposed to have the chance to vote.
However, if you remember the last election, we had a number of members who never received ballots.

 

Thats true. I only hope that this doesn't happen with this election.

Now, as far as who to vote for, I check their track record on stuff (which is why I never throw out my Numismatists.) I go back at least 4 years (two terms), look at their agenda, and make my decision from there.

My advice to those voting - vote wisely! :thumb:

 

That's pretty harsh, Frank. All things considered I think the ANA staff do a pretty good darn job. I'm sure they make mistakes but the mistakes they make are not malicious. Who knows? Your ballot could have been lost in the mail. That wouldn't be the fault of the ANA staff, would it?

 

How about the ANA conducting the vote on-line? That way no ballots would be lost in the mail.

 

Nope, not the staff.
As I remember it, they hired an independent company that was supposed to mail the ballots.

 

At first I thought it was important to be an ANA member but

At first I thought it was important to be an ANA member but as I started seeing it slip I wondered big time!
Now if you want to belong that is fine and I'm sure you'll get to vote sooner of later if it matters at all.
Their business practices during 05, 06, 07 was one of the most horrible debacles of large organisations that I ever did see! It was so awful that they lost thousands of members and it's still in litigation. If they ever get back to their intended purpose with a good leader, (Mike Ellis) would be good, I may re-join.
It is very hard to see supporting a group that went so far astray as they did. It was embaresing to say the least and I worked for the Govt. for 28 years and was used to having meetings, commitees, and all the crap that went with it - but the ANA took the cake - I had never seen anything so &(#$-*@! as they have been!

 

bhp:
I have to agree with your statements.
The period of stupidity set the ANA back many years.
That said, I stated that if Horton & his cohorts were voted out I would join to support the change to the organization.

So, I put up my two year membership dues, and so far, it is a definite improvement.

 

From what I've read about Mike, he would be a good choice and he is running for one of the Governor slots.

 

Mike Ellis , is a down to earth guy , a very knowledgeable guy , and will definitely help to make the ANA better , he has my full support and my vote for Governor .
rzage

 

Mike Ellis is running for one of the Governor positions. I intend to vote for Mike and I hope he is elected but he not will be the leader. That leader is Larry Shephard - Executive Director. Larry replaced the other guy that ran ANA into the ground. So far Larry is doing a GREAT job. In a little over a year he has balanced the budget and has settled most of the law suits. Continue to complain all you want but I think ANA is now headed in the right direction.

 

I plan to endorse Cliff Mishler for President and, as of 5/12, Joe Boling, Mike Ellis, Chet Krause, and Walt Ostromecki for the Board. But I will not, in any way, endorse Patti Finner for President, nor will I endorse Wendell Wolka and Alan Herbert for the Board. I have plenty of reasons which I will tell everyone later, as I want to make sure that it can be stated on this thread.

I have to give kudos to Larry Shepherd for running the ANA the way it should be. His predecessor was a joke and so was the previous ANA President, who, in my own opinion, would go down as one of the worst Presidents in the history of the ANA.

That is my 2 cents worth! :kewl:

 

Mike,

I would be curious why you will not support Wendall Wolka. I can't claim to know him but I have met him several times and talked to him about ANA issues and have found him to be a likeable and knowledgeable guy. I voted for him last time and I plan to vote for him this year.

 

For one, Wolka is way too agreeable with Patti Finner and elements of the 2005-2007 "regime" in ANA and also, in Central States. He stated in the ANA elections of 2007 (which I was one of the candidates of that election) that he was "independently minded". From his voting patterns this is false. Another - his vote to move the 2011 ANA from Indianapolis to Chicago, that, in essence, tells his fellow Indiana ANA members that the "Circle City" is not good enough to host the ANA convention. And I feel that there should be only one governor from one state, and Indiana has two (the other being Joe Boling, who, in my honest opinion, is a far better choice.)

 

Mike:
I have to agree that Finner is too closely related to the prior administration and their near destruction of the ANA.
Horton & Cippoletti nearly destroyed the entire institutiona and Finner was a strong part of that group.
It surprised me that she was voted in the last time as VP, but, I seem to remember that she was unopposed, or am I wrong?