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Vote Early Vote Often- the Chicago way

By Matthew Fochs posted 05-24-2017 03:52 PM

  
Hello Friends,

I imagine you, like me, are a little fatigued by the very notion of elections after the contentious Fall national election.  Even the Oscars results show us how messy voting for stuff can be.  But it’s March, which means it’s time to re-engage into our duty as members of a great organization and vote in the upcoming Institute and Chapter elections.  The CSI has had a long democratic tradition of electing its officers and directors to faithfully lead the organization.  

This year the Institute election will be held online, and all CSI members that were in good standing on January 1st of this year, with a valid email address will be invited to vote.  If your email address has changed, please be sure to update it on the website by visiting http://portal.csinet.org  Elections are being held for Institute Secretary, Director at Large, and for several of the regional directorships, including our North-Central Region.  Click here to see more information on the election and to see who is running for each position.  If you are an active follower of CSI goings-on, you will surely recognize many of the names of individuals who have volunteered to run for the various positions, including several folks active in our chapter.  Please read their biographies and candidates' statements available through the link above, and keep an eye out for the election email from the Institute.  

Similarly, it’s time for us to elect our Chapter leadership.  Please take a look at the slate of officers listed in the Chapter News section in the March 2017 newsletter.  As part of the nominating committee, I am very proud of the work of our team to fill all our open positions with great, experienced candidates from a variety of backgrounds to ably represent the diversity of interests of our great chapter.  We will be presenting the slate to the membership at the March Chapter meeting, being held at the East Bank Club on Tuesday, March 28th.  Per our bylaws, we will be accepting nominations from the floor for positions and, absent any, we will vote in the slate of officers by acclamation.  

If you have any questions about the upcoming election processes, please don’t hesitate to contact me or Beth Winkler, our chapter executive director, for more information.  If you want to get more involved in the chapter by volunteering for a committee or a chapter project or volunteer spot (the first stepping stone to becoming a Chapter, Region or Institute leader yourself), also please contact us.  

Happy March, and I hope to see you soon at one of our great events.   
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