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2024 CSEA Elections
2024 Statewide Officers, Region Officers, Statewide Board of Directors and AFSCME Delegates Elections (remainder of schedule)
January 16, 2024: Ballots mailed.
January 23, 2024: Replacement ballots available. Call 1-800-529-5218 or go to https://electionsaaa.org/ballotrequest/CSEA to request a replacement ballot.
February 15, 2024: Deadline for receipt of ballots (8:00 a.m.). Ballot count commences (9:00 a.m.).
Election results will be announced after the ballot count is complete
and certified. Protest period ends 10 days following Statewide Election Committee’s certification of results. Candidates will be notified by mail of the results. Election results will be published in the March 2024 edition of The Work Force.
Voting Eligibility Date
Only CSEA members in good standing as of December 1, 2023 are eligible to vote in the election.
If you have any questions, you may contact the Statewide Election Committee at CSEA Headquarters at 1-800-342-4146 ext. 1447 or 518-257-1447.
Election Oversight
The union’s Statewide Election Committee is overseeing the election process. The American Arbitration Association, an independent election agency approved by the union’s Statewide Board of Directors, is conducting the balloting.
SAMPLE BALLOT VOTING INSTRUCTIONS
1. You should have received ONE BALLOT reflecting all CSEA 2024 elections in which YOU HAVE A VOTE. In addition, you should have received a SECRET BALLOT envelope and a postage-paid BUSINESS REPLY ENVELOPE with 2 windows. If you do not have all three items, or if any materials are damaged, please call the American Arbitration Association at 1-800-529-5218.
2. Mark your ballot with an “X” in the box(es) of your choice. You may vote in the following ways:
a) You may vote for an entire SLATE by marking the slate box at the top of the slate column.
b) If you choose not to vote for an entire slate, you may vote for INDIVIDUAL CANDIDATES for any office by marking an “X” in the box next to the individual candidate’s name. You may do this whether the candidate is running individually or
as part of a slate. You may vote for any candidates individually as long as your total votes do not exceed the number set forth for the specific race.
3. DO NOT SIGN THE BALLOT.
4. DO NOT WRITE IN THE NAME OF ANY CANDIDATE.
5. After you finish marking the ballot, detach the address slip at the bottom of the ballot along the dotted line. Place your ballot into the SECRET BALLOT envelope and seal it. Do not write or make any mark on the SECRET BALLOT envelope.
6. Place the SECRET BALLOT envelope inside the double-window postage-paid BUSINESS REPLY ENVELOPE. Then insert the address slip into the front of the double window so that the return addresses show through the windows.
7. YOUR RETURN ADDRESS MUST APPEAR IN THE OPEN WINDOW OR YOUR BALLOT WILL NOT BE COUNTED. Your return address is used to validate your eligibility to vote. The secrecy of your vote will be maintained because the SECRET BALLOT envelopes are separated from all other materials before ballots are opened and tabulated.
8. Mail your BUSINESS REPLY ENVELOPE as soon as possible. No postage is necessary if mailed in the United States. Your ballot must be received at the Post Office utilized by AAA by 8:00 a.m. on February 15, 2024 in order to be counted.
9. The ballot count will take place on February 15, 2024 starting at 9:00 a.m. at the American Arbitration Association, 120 Broadway, New York, New York.
10. Successful candidates will be published in The Work Force.
FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE RULES MAY VOID YOUR BALLOT.
This is a reminder that members will not need to write their CSEA Member ID number anywhere on the return ballot
in this election. Every eligible member will be mailed a ballot containing all the races they are eligible to vote in — Statewide Officers, applicable Region Officers (if there’s a race), Board seat
(if there’s a race) and AFSCME
Delegates (if there’s a race) — and the ballot return slip will include member information that is scanned by the election agency to verify eligibility.
Please watch for the blue envelope and take advantage of this opportunity to exercise your right under our union democracy to have your voice heard.
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