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GENERAL PROCEDURES
Adopted by the Academic Senate, Dec 5, 2006
a.   The Senate shall distribute Election secret ballots to departments to be placed in faculty campus mailboxes. Faculty may request to pick up Ballots from ISC 109.
b.   Replacement Ballots may be downloaded from the Senate website or picked up from ISC 109.
c.   Only paper Ballots conforming to double, sealed envelope secret balloting are accepted.
d.   Ballots shall be deposited in a designated, secure mailbox the Mail Room.
e.   Although not compulsory, candidates are encouraged to provide a brief statement (150 words, maximum) and participate in collegial campaigning.
   

Voting Instructions
Adopted by the Academic Senate, Dec 5, 2006
1.   Mark your selection by putting an X in the box to the left of the name you vote for. Do not write on, or mark Ballot in any other way.
2.   Insert your Ballot in the small, white envelope. Seal envelope. Do not write on, or mark this envelope in any other way.
3.   Insert the small, white envelope in the self-addressed Senate envelope. Seal envelope.
4.   On the back of this addressed envelope:
SIGN YOUR NAME ACROSS THE FLAP
WRITE YOUR NAME LEGIBLY UNDER YOUR SIGNATURE
5.   Ballots may be submitted via USPO mail or interoffice mail. The DEADLINE is Monday March 5, 2007
• All Ballots sent by USPO mail must be postmarked on or before the deadline.
• All Ballots that are submitted by campus inter-office mail must be received on or before the deadline.
6.   DO NOT deliver Ballots to the Senate office at ISC 109.

SECRET BALLOT PROCEDURES
The secret ballot procedure uses two sealed envelopes to ensure that votes are confidential and legitimate.
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   Ballots are sealed in the unmarked envelopes.
•   The unmarked envelopes are sent in the return envelopes, which are marked to assure that only eligible voters vote and vote only once. Voters’ printed names on the back of the sealed, return envelopes are verified against the Senate’s official voter database.
•   When the return envelopes are received, they are grouped by academic voting categories. The inner, unmarked envelopes are opened separately to preserve the secrecy of the votes. Ballots that do not belong to the academic voting category within which they are grouped, are discarded.
In this way, the procedure assures that votes are legitimate (from an eligible voter); properly applied to the voter’s academic category; cast only once; and secret; the returned ballot cannot be associated with a specific voter.
   
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