Michigan Industrial Hygiene Society MIHS Election Results - March 2009 As in the past few years, the 2009-2010 MIHS Election was conducted electronically via VoteNet in the month of March. The voting turnout was as follows: • Qualified Electors: 120 • Total Voters: 89 • Percentage Voting: 74 The results reported after the close of voting on March 20th are as follows: The Officers (1-year terms): • President-Elect: Laura Randall • Secretary: Carrie Brown • Treasurer: Aaron Jacob The Board of Directors (2-year terms): • Peggy Brady • Andrew Crause • Rich McLonis • Graham Parr As the Teller's committee chair, I certify that the results reported here are those reported by the VoteNet website, and that the results are to the best of my knowledge true and accurate. Dr. James B. D'Arcy, CIH Office Candidate Votes Percentage of Voters* President Elect Laura Randall 87 98   Write-In Candidate 0 0 Secretary Carrie Z. Brown 84 94   Write-In Candidate 0 0 Treasurer Aaron Jacob 85 96   Write-In Candidate 0 0 Board of Directors Peggy Brady 56 63   Andrew Crause 66 74   Del Malzahn 39 44   Rich McLonis 59 66   Graham Parr 55 62   Ravi Vangipuram 31 35   Write-In Candidate 0 0 * The expected mean value for percentage of voters for Board of Directors with six candidates running for four positions is 67. Note: Since Carrie was elected Secretary, there was one more year left on her 2-year Board Member position. At the Past-Presidents' Breakfast Board Meeting, the MIHS Board selected Del Malzahn to replace her remaining 1-year on the board. Methods The list of eligible voters, including their e-mail addresses, was received from the Secretary Laura Randall. A unique username and password was assigned for each qualified elector using a modified Excel spreadsheet originally developed last year by Graham Parr. Biographies of the MIHS candidates were collected and a combined effort by Laura Randall, Graham Parr, and Carrie Brown provided the Vote Net setup used for voting. I reviewed the voting site and its biographies. At this point I changed the administrative password to a unique name only known by me. I uploaded the information for the qualified electors and activated the site to accept votes through March 20th. At this point only the voting status of qualified electors was available (did they vote yet, or not). I conducted a successful "test vote" using my personal voter information and then e?mailed each of the qualified electors with instructions and their personal user ID & password. Five days before the expiration of voting, I e?mailed each qualified elector who had not yet voted with a personal reminder of the need to vote. This appeared to be successful as I received 21 thank you responses for reminding them to vote. This may be partially responsible for the higher voter turnout over last year, which was already at a higher-than-normal rate (74% vs 64%) Five electors were added during the course of the election to give the total qualified electors of 120. The website closed the election at 11:59 on 3/20/09. I was informed of two voting problems during the course of the election. One was successfully overcome, and I am not aware of the outcome of the other problem.