Election of board members

Four names are on the ballot and they will be elected to four open seats on the board. A fifth member of the board will be appointed. The five current members of the board whose terms are ending are:

• Julia Brown, Malinda Gaul, Lisette Garcia, Elizabeth Haynes, and Joe Bertolino

Paper ballots

There were 4250 domestic paper ballots and 13 international paper ballots sent.

Email bounces

There were 3101 emailed ballots that were marked “undelivered”. Of these,

• 1381 were rejected with a code that usually means too many messages were sent in too short a time. Almost all of these rejections affected comcast.net addresses. AAUW is working with SimplyVoting to find a way to retry those deliveries.
• 173 were sent to people who had unsubscribed from SimplyVoting emails.
• 62 were returned marked spam
• The remainder bounced with various messages – mailbox not found, mailbox full, etc.

We are working with leaders in the states to get information to the branches where emails bounced. We will provide some specific information to help ensure members do get the reminder emails (e.g. If the message was “mailbox full”, delete some emails. If the message was “spam”, ensure vote@simplyvoting.com is in the email contact list.)

The following states have volunteered to help with this effort as of April 10.
AR,CA,FL,HI,IA,IL,IN,MD,MI,MN,MO,NC,NJ,NY,OR,PA,SD,VA,WA,WI

For more information check with info@openupaauw.org.