ELECTION NOTICE

The National Ballot Committee announces that, in accordance with Article VI, Section 8.B. of the APFA Constitution, Notification of WILLINGNESS-TO-SERVE is now being accepted for Vice President for DFW.

 

CANDIDATE INFORMATION

This election is open to all members in good standing. Each candidate must be a member in good standing by 0900 CT, February 19, 2020. Any member in good standing may self-nominate her/himself or may nominate another member. Candidates not self-nominated will be contacted by the National Ballot Committee to confirm their Willingness-to-Serve. Withdrawals must be made within three (3) days after the Willingness-to-Serve due date.

Each elected or duly elected Vice President will be authorized, in addition to other duties of the Vice President:

1. to serve as a Delegate pursuant to (1) and (2) above only in the absence of the Base President.

 

VOTER INFORMATION

To be able to vote, each APFA member must be a member in good standing (no more than sixty (60) days in dues arrears) no later than five (5) days prior to the date the votes are counted (“balloting date”). The balloting date is April 8, 2020, therefore you must be dues current by January 24, 2020. If there is the need for a run-off election, the balloting date is March 9, 2020 and you must be dues current by April 3, 2020. A member will also be eligible to vote if he or she is on an official APFA payment plan that was executed at least thirty (30) days prior to the balloting date which means you must be on the official plan by March 9, 2020.

 

ELECTION TIMETABLE

Willingness-to-Serve Notifications must be electronically submitted by 1000 CT, February 19, 2020.

Ballots will be mailed March 9, 2020. Ballots must be mailed back and received by 1000 CT, April 8, 2020. If no candidate receives a majority (50% plus one) of the valid votes cast for a national office, the National Ballot Committee will mail a run-off ballot to all members no later than February 7, 2020. Ballots for the run-off election must be mailed back and received by 1000 CT, March 9, 2020.

The elected National Officers will assume office immediately for the remainder of the two-year term of office ending March 31, 2021.

 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR WILLINGNESS-TO-SERVE

The Willingness-To-Serve (WTS) form is now Electronic and can be found on the APFA website www.apfa.org. The National Ballot Committee will no longer accept paper Willingness-To-Serves. The only acceptable form is the electronic form found on the APFA website. There is a signature line at the end of the form that you will need to sign electronically. There are instructions on how to sign the form on the WTS. Once you have completed the form, you will click the submit button. You will receive a notice that your WTS has been submitted and a copy sent to your email address you provided along with an Entry ID#. It is important that you keep this ID# for your records. The National Ballot Committee will not be able to retrieve the WTS’s until the date and time specified, but will be able to see the Entry ID#’s. You need only submit your WTS one (1) time, but if you submit more than (1), for any reason, the NBC will only use the last one received. Please remember that you may only run for one (1) National office. Each candidate’s information will be reprinted with a consistent format, and no graphics will be included. All candidate’s information is optional, including personal statements and references. There will be no corrections made to spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization, intent or content. If limitations are exceeded, personal statements will be cut off at the limit and biographical information will be brought into compliance by deleting the oldest items.

If you are nominating someone, we ask that you fill out any/all sections of the WTS including references, personal statements and biographical information as all of this will be included in the candidate booklet and the candidate you are nominating will not have the opportunity to fill these sections out after the WTS is received.

It is the responsibility of the candidate to inform references that their name will be printed and mailed in the ballot packet. As a reminder to all prospective candidates, the use of the APFA or the American Airlines logo, symbol or insignia on campaign material is prohibited.