E & E Update to the Board Good Evening OD & ODV, -BOARD CONFIDENTIAL- As Chairman of the E & E I wish to update the Officers, Directors and Vice Directors on what has transpired in the Central Division election since our last communique announcing that W9XA had dropped the complaint against NV9L for false and misleading statements on her widely distributed campaign materials. Both candidates had appealed the E&E decision to re-ballot and W9XA dropped the complaint. As a result of the W9XA complaint being dropped, the E & E rescinded its decision to re-ballot the election in Central Division. There will be no re-balloting of this election; however, the matter was not entirely closed. As you know, E & E is tasked with reviewing all campaign materials and ensuring that a standard of truth is upheld in any distributed campaign materials. Further, E & E has plenary authority in ARRL elections. Simply because W9XA dropped the complaint against NV9L, this action did not in any way relieve her from correcting the materials that contained several demonstrably false statements. After some correspondence with NV9L, she decided to retract the false statements in her campaign materials as directed by E & E. With the satisfactory completion of the NV9L retractions in the manner specified, the committee considers this matter in the Central Division election to be adjudicated and closed. Again, there will be no re-balloting of the Director's race in Central Division. The Committee discovered upon closer examination that not all of the candidates using requested mailing labels from ARRL had been supplying either HQ or E & E with the required copy of all materials mailed out under those labels or the electronic version thereof. This prompted E & E and HQ to send a blanket reminder to all candidates as a reminder of this requirement. We did receive some copies of campaign mailouts after the reminder was sent. Another complaint was filed against the incumbent, Kermit Carlson W9XA in the Central Division race about two weeks ago by John Crovelli, W2GD, a member in the Hudson Division. The E & E also investigated this claim in detail. After said investigation and close analysis, E & E decided not to pursue W2GD's complaint on the basic grounds that he has no standing to bring such a complaint against a candidate outside of his division. Further, we thought W2GD took a somewhat confrontational tone in the complaint and threatened litigation. At this point E & E consulted with General Counsel, the CEO and Secretary and the President and decided that it was best for E & E not to engage in any further dialogue with W2GD. E & E will not adjudicate the W2GD complaint. Interestingly, both the complaint and the E & E response to Mr. Crovelli were prominently and rather quickly displayed on one of the MyVoice pages, and many of you have already seen both documents. Attached is the actual E & E response to W2GD. 73 David A. Norris, K5UZ Ethics and Elections Committee - Chair