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Show Two Re-elected, One New to Garkane Board Election results were announced at the annual meeting of the Garkane Power Association in Orderville March 25 with directors named for three out of eight Garkane districts where candidates were vying for a place on the eight member board of directors. Incumbents were returned to office in two districts, but in the third, the incumbent was upset by only 143 votes, placing a new man on the board. In district seven, the Kanab area, former board member Lynn Good-fellow lost by 14 points to Joe Judd. Judd captured 295 votes; Goodfellow, 281 and Caroline Lippincott, 80. In District Five, the Glendale-Ordeiville area, incumbent John Maxwell was returned to office with 346 votes. His opponents, Norman Carroll received 185, and Alan M. Cox, 106. In District Two, the Loa Bicknell area, Keith Taylor was returned to office wtih 277 votes. Darrel Albrecto recieved 150 and Charles Blackburn,' 165. Both the annual meeting in Orderville on March 25 and the district meeting in Loa the night before were well-attended. Garkane members asked a number of questions at the Orderville meeting some of which were answered in the meeting by Garkane management personnel, Garkane attorneys or board members. Other questions were reserved for later response by Garkane, either directly by Garkane general manager Glen Willardson, who said he would personally telephone some with answers, or through Garkane's monthly newsletter, "Highlights" which accompanys monthly billings. In response to a question from one of the candidates about the manner in which ballots were handled, Garkane attorney Ken Chamberlain asked that three Garkane staff members Carl Albrecht, Stan Chappell, and Newell Cowles, who, under oath, testify that (Continued on Page 2) Elections . . . (Continued from Pace 1) they had not tampered with the ballots which had been partially opened in the Garkane general offices in Richfield earlier in the week. Candidate Caroline Lippincott said that she had called the Garkane Rich-field office on Tuesday before the annual meeting upon learning that ballots arriving in that office by mail would be partially opened. Garkane attorneys agreed to cease the partial opening of ballots In the Richfield office although they indicated that the procedure had been adopted by a resolution of the board of directors. The resolution had first been passed in Feburary of 1981 for the balloting-by-mail procedure, by the board of directors according to a Garkane company spokesman. The resolution was again adopted in February of this year, slightly modified. Under the resolution, to expedite counting, partial opening of the ballots in the Richfield office is permitted. Mail-in ballots are enclosed in an outer envelope which Garkane secretaries remove upon arrival in the office, revealing a middle envelope upon which the voter has written his name and membership number. The name and membership number are checked against a master list to verify membership. At this point the envelope is removed revealing a plain white sealed envelope with no markings which contains the ballot. This plain white envelope is placed with the seal unbroken into a box for transporting to the annual meeting for counting. Those questioning the procedure point out that the sealed middle envelope containing the voter's name and membership number should be left intact until the votes are counted by the election committee at the annual meeting. Membership could be verified and checked off in advance to save time, they say, but leaving the middle envelopes intact would remove any possibility of tampering with the ballots. The current procedure, they claim, allows for complete replacement of the sealed plain envelope with another pre-marked ballot in a similar envelope in the event dishonesty were involved. A change in Garkane by-laws will be made as a result of the election. Under the change, directors for the board will henceforth be elected directly from the diitricCs they wlli" represent. In the past, directors from each district were elected by the membership-at-large. |
