01-11-2017, 05:59 AM
Some of you posted encouraging members to apply for their district election this year. But will we have a repeat sham of last year's election??? They were successful last election w/no accountability so may try these maneuvers again. No, Putin wasn't involved. But the same reps we have trouble with today were and therefore, I have NO confidence in our election process.
We can't even have a professional district election run w/integrity w/out board reps and their supporters meddling to affect who WE the membership votes for. Check the board minutes, who were the board reps during Apr-Jun 2016 and are repeats this term? Who was the Nominating Committee chair that was involved last election and is a repeat member?
Are the board and Nominating Committee going to make up their own rules again this election? At the Dec 2016 board mtg, the board formed an "election committee", a board controlled committee. Isn't this a conflict of interest? Is that why an "election" committee was formed to circumvent the bylaw's checks and balances?
Here are the facts....Members and reps on the Nominating committee are also on the Election committee. Who's cross checking whom here? There's at least one candidate from the last election who's 3 yr board seat was stolen from him, and no one knows how many other districts were involved since no investigation was done.
If you attended the last 2 membership mtgs, you would've learned we indeed had a fraudulent district election. 1) How does a candidate get invited to an Orientation mtg, reserved for winning candidates, given board rep material, and sev days later told by Dist 5 rep that he didn't win? 2) How is it that a winning candidate wasn't told he had won? He wasn't asked to attend the Orientation mtg (bc you can't have 2 winning candidates from Dist 1) nor to attend the June membership mtg 3) A member requested a ballot count in Aug 2016 and picked it up at the ofc. The document had "Theagels" at the top, the wrong Eagles adrs and a date in Aug 2016, not dtd Jun 2016 when the election results would've been recorded.
When someone at the Eagles was questioned and shown this ballot count document, they said they didn't produce or provide it, and the HPP board hadn't requested a ballot count document from them. They showed the HPP member their Eagles stationery w/letterhead w/a different adrs. It didn't come close to resembling what was provided by the HPP ofc. The association hired The Eagles to do the ballot count and no one thinks they were involved in fraud. But they've circled their wagons once the fraud came to their attention. We've learned that a board member's boyfriend is on the Eagles board, hence the connection to the Eagles.
In 2015, the board set a precedence that NO applications will be accepted after the deadline. A member was turned away on that pretense at that time.
The Eagles didn't have anything in place to receive our ballots so they were delivered to the HPP ofc and stored in a cardboard box. No blame on the Eagles. It was the board's choice to break our bylaws.
Be attentive if there's a repeat of this. They did not abide by the following rules: Article VIII Sec 4 Nomination. "(d) Nominations shall be submitted by the nominating committee to the Association Administration Office for preparation of the ballots. The deadline for receipt of nominations shall be the end of the third week of March. Sec 5 Election (a) Each year the members in each voting district whose district's term expires, or whose director's position is vacant, or is being filled by a board appointee, shall elect a new director by confidential mail-in ballot. Prior to the ballot mail-out, the board shall select a reputable entity to receive, count, and report on the election results." A member came forward to remind the board of this bylaw before the ballots were mailed out and they disregarded it.
What board rep/s were involved in this election fraud? In an ethical world, the rep/s would be kicked off the board, any involved committee members banned from any more committees, and any ofc staff fired. Members were provided handouts of the fraudulent document and the Eagles letterhead stationery at the October membership mtg... incontrovertible proof.
We also learned at the membership mtg the GM accompanied 2 reps during business hrs to observe the ballot count at the Eagles facility. This is highly irregular and is a first in HPP history to involve and pay an employee to observe the ballot count. Another irregularity was the lack of any association members there to observe for OUR checks and balances. One tried to attend and "coincidentally" the time was changed. The woman from the Eagles stated one of the reps at the ballot count was noticeably upset at the outcome of one of the districts.......hmmmm, that's interesting...Be attentive association members on how the elections are managed this year. And does your ballot have your name printed on it for checks and balances or do you have to write it in like last election? Is the return adrs the HPP ofc?
We can't even have a professional district election run w/integrity w/out board reps and their supporters meddling to affect who WE the membership votes for. Check the board minutes, who were the board reps during Apr-Jun 2016 and are repeats this term? Who was the Nominating Committee chair that was involved last election and is a repeat member?
Are the board and Nominating Committee going to make up their own rules again this election? At the Dec 2016 board mtg, the board formed an "election committee", a board controlled committee. Isn't this a conflict of interest? Is that why an "election" committee was formed to circumvent the bylaw's checks and balances?
Here are the facts....Members and reps on the Nominating committee are also on the Election committee. Who's cross checking whom here? There's at least one candidate from the last election who's 3 yr board seat was stolen from him, and no one knows how many other districts were involved since no investigation was done.
If you attended the last 2 membership mtgs, you would've learned we indeed had a fraudulent district election. 1) How does a candidate get invited to an Orientation mtg, reserved for winning candidates, given board rep material, and sev days later told by Dist 5 rep that he didn't win? 2) How is it that a winning candidate wasn't told he had won? He wasn't asked to attend the Orientation mtg (bc you can't have 2 winning candidates from Dist 1) nor to attend the June membership mtg 3) A member requested a ballot count in Aug 2016 and picked it up at the ofc. The document had "Theagels" at the top, the wrong Eagles adrs and a date in Aug 2016, not dtd Jun 2016 when the election results would've been recorded.
When someone at the Eagles was questioned and shown this ballot count document, they said they didn't produce or provide it, and the HPP board hadn't requested a ballot count document from them. They showed the HPP member their Eagles stationery w/letterhead w/a different adrs. It didn't come close to resembling what was provided by the HPP ofc. The association hired The Eagles to do the ballot count and no one thinks they were involved in fraud. But they've circled their wagons once the fraud came to their attention. We've learned that a board member's boyfriend is on the Eagles board, hence the connection to the Eagles.
In 2015, the board set a precedence that NO applications will be accepted after the deadline. A member was turned away on that pretense at that time.
The Eagles didn't have anything in place to receive our ballots so they were delivered to the HPP ofc and stored in a cardboard box. No blame on the Eagles. It was the board's choice to break our bylaws.
Be attentive if there's a repeat of this. They did not abide by the following rules: Article VIII Sec 4 Nomination. "(d) Nominations shall be submitted by the nominating committee to the Association Administration Office for preparation of the ballots. The deadline for receipt of nominations shall be the end of the third week of March. Sec 5 Election (a) Each year the members in each voting district whose district's term expires, or whose director's position is vacant, or is being filled by a board appointee, shall elect a new director by confidential mail-in ballot. Prior to the ballot mail-out, the board shall select a reputable entity to receive, count, and report on the election results." A member came forward to remind the board of this bylaw before the ballots were mailed out and they disregarded it.
What board rep/s were involved in this election fraud? In an ethical world, the rep/s would be kicked off the board, any involved committee members banned from any more committees, and any ofc staff fired. Members were provided handouts of the fraudulent document and the Eagles letterhead stationery at the October membership mtg... incontrovertible proof.
We also learned at the membership mtg the GM accompanied 2 reps during business hrs to observe the ballot count at the Eagles facility. This is highly irregular and is a first in HPP history to involve and pay an employee to observe the ballot count. Another irregularity was the lack of any association members there to observe for OUR checks and balances. One tried to attend and "coincidentally" the time was changed. The woman from the Eagles stated one of the reps at the ballot count was noticeably upset at the outcome of one of the districts.......hmmmm, that's interesting...Be attentive association members on how the elections are managed this year. And does your ballot have your name printed on it for checks and balances or do you have to write it in like last election? Is the return adrs the HPP ofc?