After the announcement by the Elections Committee Chair that the ballots would be counted manually, I contacted VoteBot (www.vot.bot.com), a highly-reputable organization with no ties to the Internet genealogical community. It took some sweet-talking, but they finally agreed to set up a custom electronic voting booth for up to 3,000 voters - for FREE - solely because we are a nonprofit. I have been working with the manager of the site all day setting this up, and ask that the Election Committee, Board and I know you have all seen this message, but thought I would cut and paste it into this message just so everyone would understand what I was talking about. What do we think of this option for the Elections? It is kind of late in the game to be changing anything the EC has set up, but it does sound like a great system of running voting process. Pam Membership give this option your most serious consideration. Their procedures are totally confidential, using password-protected email and the manager is ready to go when we are: All that needs to be done is set up the ballots for the regions and special projects and enter the emails for voting privileges. This would be a truly neutral "hands-off" process with no possible question of vote-tampering, and I urge all concerned to please accept this solution in the spirit in which it is offered. Lynn Feel free to forward this to any appropriate list, as long as it is in its entirety!