The National Election Committee shall establish an election period that is not less than 6 months in addition to a one-month nomination period and a one-month nomination acceptance period for national and regional elections. The final day of the 6-month election period will be the day ballots are mailed to the membership.
On the last day of the nomination acceptance period, all candidates who have accepted the nomination shall receive a membership list of all-eligible voters in their elections. The list shall include the members full name, physical mailing address, email and phone number.

Rationale: The last election cycle exposed holes in our election process. The nomination period was unnecessarily long and the election period was unnecessarily short. And the Election Committee changed the rules on providing membership lists to the candidate’s mid cycle. The intent to standardize the rule and create a reasonable election period ensuring our democratic process is sound.