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Skiprr wrote: Voting for NRA Directors is supposed to be about selecting the best people for the job. It's about honor, integrity, intent, belief, work-ethic, and deep personal commitment.

I would think it would have something to do with what kinds of people we want representing us and fighting for our rights as gun owners. Someone who claims that it is okay for civilians' right to keep and bear to be
artificially restricted to 5 rounds is not someone I want representing me, they are my enemy.

Flooding votes for all but your disfavored few candidates does nothing but perhaps inadvertently voting in[/u ]some directors you might rail against come three years' time.

Perhaps that could be the case, one never knows what the future holds, but that would be another fight for a different day. None of those I am voting for are known to me now as enemies. Regardless of how many I vote for, in this election all but 4 will become board members.

Leave the button blank for those whom you do not want to be an NRA board member.

This I have done.

Skiprr wrote: Choose only those candidates you want. Do not vote for other candidates.

The votes are counted on a simple "for" number. The most "for" votes gets elected.

The notion of eliminating four candidates and voting for the other 25 will have a somewhat opposite effect: candidates you might otherwise choose not to vote for can slide into office on the heels of others. If you feel strongly about, say, eight of the candidates, vote only for those eight.

I think you are misunderstanding how this is supposed to work. You would be correct if we were trying to get one or two people elected, then the optimal strategy would be to vote for only those people.

We are trying to vote someone out, to do that 25 other people need to have more votes than them. So in this instance the optimal strategy is to vote for 25 people and preferably the same 25.

There are 29 names on the ballot so people who want this to work should vote for all but 4 names. The arfcom thread suggests 3 people NOT to vote for, with the 4th as a free choice.

FWIW I signed up as a life member on February 27th and I just received my ballot today.

I still have not received my membership packet and new card though.