2025 NRA Board Elections

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Monday’s NRA Voting Factoid

March 10, 2025 by 3 Comments

In what should not surprise anyone, voting participation in the NRA Board of Directors election has dropped by almost half since 2019. That year the percentage of members voting was 5.95% which is not that great in and of itself. In 2024, it was 3.16%. Over that same time period membership in the NRA has dropped by almost two million members.

We have 27 days left in which to reverse this trend and to elect the NRA 2.0 slate of candidates. Ballots must be received by April 6th. Given that April 6th is a Sunday, I’m am thinking a day or so earlier is the absolute cut-off for your ballot to be received.

Given everything that has been revealed since the 2019 Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, it is no wonder that members have left and voting has dropped off. This year is our chance to reverse the voting trend, clean house, and give the NRA a chance to regain its strength. By cleaning house, I mean defeating those who stood by while Wayne and company were merrily grifting away. The old guard, the Friends of Wayne, the cabal, or whatever you want to call them have stood in the way of change and are trying to get elected on the basis of old, sometimes very old, accomplishments. Their time is past.

Now it is time to elect those who stand for accountability, integrity, and, most of all, transparency.

Thanks to the Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association for creating the NRA Voting Facts series.

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Let’s Be Above Average

March 7, 2025 by 2 Comments

In another voting facts factoid from the Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association, we learn that in the last five NRA Board elections that it took an average of 51,774 votes to be elected.

If what I’m hearing on the ground is accurate, it should take more than that to be elected. The reason being is that I’m hearing from long time members that they plan to vote for the first time. Moreover, they plan to vote for NRA 2.0 and reform.

If you have friends who are NRA members, ask them if they are a voting member? Ask them if they have voted yet? If they answer no, tell them they need to vote and they need to vote for NRA 2.0. While it might be nice to see the NRA returned to its former prominence, I am more concerned about it being an effective advocate for the Second Amendment and not worrying about who gets the credit for the win.

Go to ElectANewNRA.com to see the whole slate.

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This Is One Way To Increase Voter Turnout

March 4, 2025 by 13 Comments

The factoids from Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association illustrate that voter turnout in the NRA Board elections is terrible. Indeed, to put it bluntly, a fraction about 3 percent is an embarrassment.

I think the Dallas Safari Club might be on to something. Not only have they gone to online voting but they are offering an inducement to increase voter participation.

If the chance to win a $4,000 +/- rifle doesn’t induce you to vote, then nothing will.

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NRA Voting Facts Revisited

March 3, 2025 by

In another illustration of how so few eligible NRA voting members actually vote is this factoid from the Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association.

Thanks to Bitter and the Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association for compiling these numbers. Imagine a NRA if a million members voted for change, reform, and NRA 2.0. Nothing could stop us!

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March 7th Is Deadline To Become A Voting Member

February 28, 2025 by

I received an email this morning from NRA Secretary John Frazer which clarifies the deadline to become a voting member eligible to vote in the 2025 NRA Board of Directors election. The deadline is March 7th.

Here is the email from Frazer:

To:          Board and Executive Council members

                2025 Board of Directors candidates

We’ve received a couple of questions about the voting eligibility of members who paid their Life membership dues in January or February. 

Under the Bylaws, anyone who is a fully paid Life member (or reaches the five-year mark of annual membership) at least 50 days before the Annual Meeting of Members is eligible to vote.  This year, that date is March 7.

However, anyone who becomes eligible after late December wouldn’t get a ballot in the February magazines (or the initial first-class mailing for overseas ballots).  Members who qualify to vote between that initial data pull and March 7 will receive a ballot by first-class mail around March 11.

Based on the questions we’ve received and some social media posts, it appears that our Membership call center may not have communicated that clearly.  We’ve reminded the call center about this timeline. 

Anyone who joined early enough to get a ballot in the initial mailing, but still hasn’t received one, can contact Membership to verify their ballot status, and request a replacement if appropriate.

Many thanks to those who called this to our attention, and please let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

John Frazer

Secretary

National Rifle Association of America

11250 Waples Mill Rd.

Fairfax, VA 22030

So if you are planning on buying or upgrading to a Life Membership so that you can vote in this election, your deadline to do so is March 7th.

The half price Life Membership offer at $750 has reportedly expired. However, it is still listed online here. If you are considering becoming a Life Member, do it now and take advantage of that discount. I sincerely doubt that the days of the $300 “friends and family” Life Memberships will ever return.

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Proof Online Voting Is Viable

February 27, 2025 by 1 Comment

One of the questions I have been getting with some frequency as a candidate for the NRA Board of Directors is, “Can I vote online?” I have to answer that they cannot and they must use the paper ballot that was mailed to them in the February issue of the various NRA magazines.

It is a reasonable question and with today’s technology the question really should be “Why can’t I?” We vote proxies for multi-billion dollar public companies online all the time with the option to use a paper ballot. We use DocuSign to sign off securely on mortgages and financial transactions. Judge Cohen called the paper and ink petition signature gathering process as very “20th Century” and “antiquated”. In his Final Order, while permitting the paper petitions to remain, he said the NRA must provide an online alternative.

It is doable and I know it is doable because I just voted that way this evening for the Dallas Safari Club Board of Directors. I realize that DSC is a much smaller organization but I can’t see why it could not work for a larger organization like the NRA.

I was given an Election Code and Voting PIN. The ballot had the names of five candidates plus spaces for three write-in candidates. I could vote for up to three candidates. I ended up voting for only two and the system questioned whether I wanted to vote for a third candidate before submitting my vote. I didn’t and it went through with no troubles. As you can see above, I even got a confirm that it was a success.

This system was run by a company called YesElections which was formerly known as Election-America, Inc. According to a PDF e-book that I downloaded, they are able to handle hybrid elections where members are sent a paper ballot with the option to vote it online.

I plan to follow up with them this week and ask is there a maximum limit on the number of voters that they can handle. I know there are other companies like ProxyVote that handle millions of proxy votes during Annual Meeting season. While the latter is exclusively for the financial world, YesElections seems to work with a wider range of clients ranging from associations to unions to educational institutions.

Read their e-book yourself. Can you think of any reason something like this could not be implemented for the 2026 NRA Board of Directors’ election?

I can’t.

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NRA Voting Facts

February 17, 2025 by 6 Comments

Our friends at the Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association have been doing a deep dive into the voting statistics of the NRA. I used to say about 5% of voting members voted in each recent election. I was wrong. It is only marginally more than 3%! I have seen a greater turnout for municipal elections for coroner and Soil & Water Commissioner.

What this means is that the members of your average moderate sized gun club, if NRA voting members, could swing an election. The difference between being on the Board and being a runner-up is usually somewhere around 325 votes.

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Who Is Seth Haan Really?

February 11, 2025 by 2 Comments

I wrote about the troll Seth Haan the other day because of his attack on Jeff Knox. An astute reader who took the time to go back through some of his posts on the 24 Hour Campfire Forum noticed something interesting. Look at the next few screen captures and see if you see it.

You will notice “Seth” consistently used the first person plural when referring to the Board of Directors as well as the old guard’s slate of candidates. As in, “the recent reforms we supported” and “we need to keep our members”, etc.

Is “Seth” a mere pen name or nom de plume for a member of the Board of Directors that is supporting the cabal? If you were talking about others in a group that didn’t include yourself, you would use “they” or the third person plural and not “we” which is the first person plural.

“Seth” consistently ignores requests to identify himself in the various forums. There is never something like “I’m just a concerned member” or the like. He did say he had met a number of Board members at events put on by the NRA and, interestingly enough, SAF.

It is obvious that “Seth” doesn’t like Jeff Knox as he once again attacked him in a post on the Smith & Wesson Forum today. As for those of us running on the reform slate, you can see for yourself his opinion of me and my fellow reformers.

If I were an opportunist, I would have sucked up to the old regime years ago so as to get on the Board and get rewarded with African safaris for my loyalty. As it is, my two trips to South Africa last year were paid for out of my own pocket and I consider it money well spent. I guess I just don’t know how to properly play the role of an opportunist.

So if you are reading this “Seth”, let us know who you really are. Enquiring minds want to know.

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Sign The Official Envelope!

February 11, 2025 by

This important reminder comes from the Falls Township Rifle & Pistol Association.

They have this important advice:

The biggest gains that can be made for reform leadership are through NRA voting members who don’t typically vote. If you’re recruiting from the ranks of new or infrequent board election voters, don’t let them get caught up in the thousands of ballots that get tossed out each year as invalid.

Aside from arriving late and casting too many votes, “No Authentication” is a top preventable mistake made with ballots that will keep them from being counted.