Just One Vote!

     Soon all current AMA members will be receiving their 2009 membership renewal notices and 2009 election ballots. In a cost-saving effort, the renewal notices and election ballots will be mailed together. The ballot will be a postage-paid post card to encourage members to participate in the elections.


     This year, the Executive Vice President's (EVP's) modified job description, which you can find on page 159 of the October 2008 MA, will go into effect. This new direction for the post takes it from being the AMA's financial advisor to assisting the AMA president, Executive Council, and executive director. This change will be challenging, and your vote will help determine who will fill this most important volunteer position.


     Members in districts II and III are having elections for the position of district vice president (VP). Districts VII and XI are also scheduled for VP elections, but the incumbents are running unopposed.

     Ballots will be mailed to all members to vote for the EVP position and to those who live in districts that are having VP elections.

     Note that the post-card ballots are to be returned to a different address than the dues renewals. Please don't include your ballot in your dues-renewal envelope. If you send your ballot to AMA Headquarters, it will not be counted. Or you can save time and postage by renewing online at www.modelaircraft.org/joinrenew.aspx. 

     Do you know of someone who is thinking about joining the AMA? If that person does so after September 15, 2008, he or she will receive the membership for the balance of 2008 and all of 2009 for one $58 fee.

     AMA elections have not been a membership priority. If you don't think your vote counts, look what one vote has done in the past.

• In 1916, one vote won Woodrow Wilson the presidency by carrying California.
• The purchase of Alaska from Russia was ratified in 1867 by just one vote.
• One of the most important and least-cited single-vote decision took place shortly after the American Revolution.
   In 1776, one vote gave America the English language instead of the German language.
• In 1923, one vote gave Adolf Hitler leadership of the Nazi party.

Don't know who to vote for? Campaign statements will be included with the ballots. Become informed, but most of all, vote!  MA

—AMA Headquarters

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