BOD voting by state

[Guest imported_BCAOffice]

We have had several requests from Chapter Directors, Regional Directors, and others asking "how many people voted from my state?", so we took the time to break the ballots down by state. The first numer behind the state is the number of active members currently in the state, the second number is how many ballots were cast from the state. For those who who have an unsatiable hunger for numbers, we currently have 9382 members (there are a large number of June renewals not back yet) and we had a total of 1366 valid ballots cast. This was a vast improvement over the 500 or so valid ballots cast last year. Here's the rest of the story:

Alaska - 12 - 2 Alabama - 42 - 9

Arkansas - 25 - 5 Arizona - 168 - 29

California - 1198 - 149 Colorado - 164 - 30

Connecticut - 156 - 15 Delaware - 28 - 5

Dist. of Columbia - 10 - 2 Florida - 312 - 62

Georgia - 132 - 15 Hawaii - 2 - 0

Iowa - 134 - 30 Idaho - 30 - 3

Illinois - 576 - 103 Indiana - 230 - 32

Kansas - 85 - 11 Kentucky - 65 - 12

Louisiana - 36 - 1 Massachusetts - 258 - 36

Maryland - 183 - 21 Maine - 34 - 4

Michigan - 691 - 112 Minnesota - 302 - 61

Missouri - 158 - 33 Mississippi - 13 - 2

Montana - 29 - 4 North Carolina - 125 - 21

North Dakota - 14 - 1 Nebraska - 49 - 9

New Hampshire - 58 - 9 New Jersey - 300 - 33

New Mexico - 39 - 6 Nevada - 58 - 4

New York - 657 - 85 Ohio - 635 - 113

Oklahoma - 46 - 6 Oregon - 131 - 10

Pennsylvania - 538 - 80 Puerto Rico - 5 - 1

Rhode Island - 37 - 6 South Carolina - 72 - 8

South Dakota - 19 - 3 Tennessee - 95 - 11

Texas - 261 - 50 Utah - 27 - 2

Virginia - 182 - 23 Vermont - 22 - 2

Washington - 272 - 26 Wisconsin - 292 - 44

West Virginia - 35 - 3 Wyoming - 12 - 4

Canada - 123 - 11 Other Foreign - 176 - 10

Compliments of your friendly BCA National Office Staff,

Mike & Nancy

[Guest COMPACTBC]

Thank you Mike and Nancy your efforts are appreciated and very revealing as to what part of the country is most concerned about who our B.O.D. members are and which states have lost or have little interest in selecting the leadership of the BCA. Like you say, a big improvement over previous years, but we still have a LOTS of room for improvement. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

[BUICK RACER]

Mike and Nancy, thank you for this information, I'm sure it was a JOB to figure this out, it still looks like 10% of the membership is voting in most cases, I'd like to do a percentage of membership by state for you, which would really tell the story! RV

[NTX5467]

Thanks for that information, Mike and Nancy! I guess that now that this information is available, perhaps our chapter operatives might take some steps to increase their chapter's voter turnout in future elections--"legally", of course? But not to dictate who to vote for either.

Thanks!

NTX5467

[Bill Stoneberg]

Here are the percentages sorted by largest to smallest:

State Percentage

Wyoming 33.3%

Iowa 22.4%

Alabama 21.4%

Missouri 20.9%

Minnesota 20.2%

Arkansas 20.0%

Dist. of Columbia 20.0%

Puerto Rico 20.0%

Florida 19.9%

Texas 19.2%

Kentucky 18.5%

Nebraska 18.4%

Colorado 18.3%

Illinois 17.9%

Delaware 17.9%

Ohio 17.8%

North Carolina 16.8%

Alaska 16.7%

Rhode Island 16.2%

Michigan 16.2%

South Dakota 15.8%

New Hampshire 15.5%

Mississippi 15.4%

New Mexico 15.4%

Wisconsin 15.1%

Pennsylvania 14.9%

Massachusetts 14.0%

Indiana 13.9%

Montana 13.8%

Oklahoma 13.0%

Kansas 12.9%

New York 12.9%

Virginia 12.6%

California 12.4%

Arizona 11.9%

Maine 11.8%

Tennessee 11.6%

Maryland 11.5%

Georgia 11.4%

South Carolina 11.1%

Idaho 10.0%

Connecticut 9.6%

Washington 9.4%

Vermont 9.1%

Canada 8.9%

West Virginia 8.6%

Oregon 7.6%

Utah 7.4%

North Dakota 7.1%

Nevada 6.9%

Other Foreign 5.7%

Louisana 2.8%

New Jersey 1.0%

Total 14.2%