by Ballots arrived for both the Complementary Spouse and myself while I was in Las Vegas at the SHOT Show. Now it is time to fill them out and get them in the mail. All ballots must be received – not merely postmarked – by March 29, 2026. You have two months to get them in but I wouldn’t wait.
While you are allowed to vote for up to 29 candidates, I went with the 13 I had endorsed earlier. There are others on the ballot who are certainly deserving of your vote and very few who aren’t. I should emphasize that if you vote for more than 29 candidates, your ballot will become void. This is true even though 35 candidates will win seats of varying length.
You can see my completed ballot below:
Now to the next matter. A friend noticed this poll on AR15.com. It was asking what people intended to do with their NRA ballots. Sadly, only little more than a third said they were going to fill them out and submit them. An equal number said they planned to trash them. I know it is Arfcom which is not always a good indicator.
All I would ask is that if you are a voting member that you would study the biographies, see other endorsements like those from known reformers such as Jeff Knox and Tim Knight, make an informed decision, and vote. The NRA Board of Directors is one of the very few boards that is democratically elected. Without your participation, it would be easy to slip back to the old ways.
UPDATE: Just a reminder that there are five or so ballots with the order of the candidates different in each. Your ballot may be different than my ballot.
UPDATE II: Here are two more candidates deserving of your support if you have not already mailed your ballot. First, Mark Vaughan of Oklahoma City, OK. He is currently serving as the 1st VP and doing an excellent job. I didn’t include him in my list of endorsees as I saw his re-election as a given. I wanted to give a push to other candidates that needed that extra push. I would have hated to see someone like a Charlie Hiltunen have to run as the 76th Director like he did last year or a Jim Porter only get a one-year term.
Second, consider writing in Charles Rowe of Wadsworth, Ohio on your ballots. Jeff Knox has written about him. Chuck has done yeoman’s work with the competition rules committees helping to rewrite and rationalize the rules. It is not my bailiwick but I’m glad someone extremely competent has taken the ball and run with it.
Maybe point out that they scramble the candidates order so no one just tries to copy your ballot without checking the names.
That is a good point. I will add that to the post.
I think they scramble the candidates to eliminate the “first on the list” bias.
Done!
Done. For the future, it would be helpful in the ballot would fit in the envelope without folding it twice. Also the stickum doesn’t work.
For the future, it would be helpful in the ballot would fit in the envelope without folding it twice.
Amen to this request. I’ve never understood why it’s so poorly shaped compared to the envelope. I assume there is a reason, but I could also see it being because no one thought to change it. 🙂 If it can be changed, please…
I cannot disagree with this. I had to fold my ballot in thirds to get it to fit.
I have not seen how it is fed into the ballot counting machine but I hope the folds don’t cause problems.
That was exactly my concern about folding. I know there is an issue like that in general elections.
Was there ever a direct answer from Rowe on why he was part of the cabal ticket? They were surprisingly restrained in who they selected to be part of the slate, as they certainly had more people who likely would have voted with them if they were elected. The avoidance of it still leaves me uncomfortable.
I’m all for someone who would get in and clean up competitions and build that community back, I haven’t seen anyone discussing it seriously about the concerns in insane spending for no ROI that we’re seeing there. Based on what I’m seeing of other sanctioning bodies for shooting sports, I think NRA is going to fall behind even more than the last data presented to the Board despite being an office allowed to hire more people pretty early on. Doubling down on what they’ve been doing if we’re not seeing any results is crazy.
Why he was part of their slate last year, I don’t know. I do know Rowe is not part of it this year.
And speaking of the StrongNRA slate, I find it concerning that Jay Wallace is listed as part of their slate given he is also part of the ElectANewNRA slate. It does set off red flags.
Agree! And one of the slate falsely claims she’s nominated by the Nominating Committee? Then another refuses to answer any member who asks questions about her statements. Very strange and suspicious.
Just noticed, they aren’t listed in a different order, just that the starting point is staggered.