Voting has been extended until 5:00pm today.
THE ELECTION
The 2021 Adams Morgan Partnership BID (AMPBID) Board of Directors election is being conducted via online voting. Voting began at 5pm on Tuesday, March 9 and will end today (Thursday, March 11) at 5pm.
PROBLEM WITH PAPER BALLOTS
All members of the AMPBID should have received a paper ballot with a voting access code that was unique to them in the mail along with voting instructions and a proxy form. There was an unfortunate glitch on the part of our online voting vendor, ElectionBuddy, that caused the access codes that had already been mailed to be overwritten by new access codes. There was no indication that there was a problem and therefore we were unaware of the situation until voting commenced at 5pm on Tuesday. At 5pm an email went out to voters for whom we had email addresses in the system with a link for them to vote -- that link worked as it should but the paper ballots did not. As soon as the issue was identified, we downloaded the list of voter keys and began to send them to voters as they reported problems.
Due to the late hour, we weren't able to touch base with ElectionBuddy technical support until the next morning, but at that time they took full responsibility for the problems, refunded us the cost of the election, and have been working with us to make it right. Aside from the glitch, we've had nothing but positive reviews of the online voting process -- it literally only take a few seconds to vote and on this end, we are able to see who has voted (but not who they voted for).
The paper mailing we sent out had our contact info in the event of a problem, and our voters have been using that to get in touch with us. We are in turn sending them a new link with which to vote, and overall participation has been very good (17% and climbing).
THERE IS STILL TIME TO VOTE
When the problem was discovered during our annual meeting on Tuesday night, the board decided to extend voting for an additional 24 hours to allow more time for people to vote. Voting will end at 5pm today. If you have not yet voted, please do so. If you need a link with which to vote, please contact Brian Barrie as soon as possible via
email
or call/text at 202-536-9515.
CANDIDATES
2021 AMPBID Board of Directors Election
Elections will be held at the annual meeting for seven seats on the Board of Directors. Two seats for Business Owners and Five Seats for Property Owners.
Business owners only vote for business owners and property owners only vote for property owners.
Running for the two Business Owner seats are:
Running for the five Property Owner seats are:
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Dr. Mina Akhlaghi
, (
resume
) owner of 1746 & 1748 Columbia Rd., NW
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Jim Ball
, (
resume
) owner of 2000 18th St., NW
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Brian Friedman
, (resume coming soon) owns multiple properties including: 2104 18th St. NW, 2700 Ontario Rd. NW, 2337 18th St. NW, 1777 Columbia Rd. NW
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Wendy Hauenstein
, (
resume
) owner of 1830 Columbia Rd., NW
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Cindy Sanchez
, (
resume
) owner of 2009 18th St., NW
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Jeffrey Schonberger
, (
resume
) owner of 1724 California St NW
ELECTION RESULTS
Election results will be announced Friday morning.
