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Board of Trustees1997 Board ElectionReport of the Elections CommitteeInterim Report of the Nominating Committee The 1997 trustee election period ran from Jan. 29th to April 20 at 5pm EDT. For the first time electronic voting via the ISOC web page was used in addition to fax and postal mail. A total of 6433 ballots were sent to ISOC members via postal mail, up from 5482 last year. Of these 638 ballots were received by postal mail, 25 via fax and 681 ballots were submitted via the web page, a total return of 1344 or 20.9%. Last year 871 ballots were returned, all via postal mail, for a total return of 15.9%. A preprinted label with a sequential ballot number and a random verification code was affixed to each ballot before it was sent to an ISOC member. To ensure privacy no record was kept of which ballot was sent to which ISOC member. Members were told that original ballot could be returned via postal mail, the ballot could be faxed to ISOC headquarters or the ISOC member could use a web interface to record their ballot. The web interface was set up to request the ballot number and the verification code. If the verification code for the ballot number did not match the verification number that was affixed to the original ballot an error message was given to the user. If the numbers matched, a voting database was checked to see if votes had already been recorded for this ballot number. If so an error message was given. If the numbers matched and no vote had been recorded for the ballot number a ballot page was put up for the ISOC member to fill in. The Elections Committee met on April 21 1997 to verify and count the ballots. The Committee consisted of ISOC members Peter Bostrom, Scott Bradner (committee chair), Mary Burger, and Joe Pasquariello. The committee was assisted by ISOC staff members Michele LeComte, Charlotte Summeral, and Kent Fackenthall. The ballot numbers on all ballots were checked to be sure that the same ballot number was not used in more than one form (fax, web or postal). One ballot number was found to have been voted both electronically and via postal mail. Both the electron and paper ballots with this number were discarded and their votes not used in the totals. Six ballots were found to have votes in excess of the maximum of 5 permitted and were discarded. In addition 9 ballots were blank (8 electronic and one paper). All paper ballots were counted twice and any discrepancies rectified by recounting. Election results (Candidates listed in the order that was used on the ballot. Elected candidate's are in bold)
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