Run-Off Election
NOTICE OF RUN-OFF ELECTION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2006
PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 94–06
TO ELECT TWO OFFICERS AT LARGE AND FOUR DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES, ONE FROM PONEMAH, REDBY, RED LAKE AND LITTLE ROCK DISTRICTS FOR A TERM OF FOUR YEARS OR UNTIL A SUCCESSOR IS DULY ELECTED, TO THE RED LAKE TRIBAL COUNCIL, RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS.
TO: MEMBERS OF THE RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS
Notice is hereby given of an election to be held by secret ballot on Wednesday, July 19, 2006, to elect a Chairman, Secretary and four District Representatives, one each from the Ponemah, Redby, Red Lake and Little Rock Districts to a four year term to serve on the Tribal Council of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians. This announcement is made in accordance with Article V of the Revised Constitution and By-Laws of the Red Lake Band and Chapter 1800 of the Tribal Code.
Any enrolled member of the Red Lake Band eighteen (18) years of age and over on election day shall be entitled to vote in this election.
Election rules and regulations contained within the Election Ordinance call for a filing period, filing fee, certification of eligibility, etc., and therefore, write-in candidates shall be ineligible and each District Election Board and the General Election Board are hereby instructed not to consider, list or count votes for write-in candidates. The only eligible candidates in each contest are those two individuals receiving one of the highest two vote tallies in their respective contests in the May 17, 2006, election. Those candidates are:
CHAIRMAN SECRETARY
Floyd “Buck” Jourdain, Jr. Kathryn “Jody” Beaulieu
Judy Roy Don Cook, Sr.
PONEMAH REPRESENTATIVE REDBY REPRESENTATIVE
Clifford C. Hardy Julius “Toady” Thunder
Gary L. Nelson, Sr. Tom “Jambi” Westbrook
RED LAKE REPRESENTATIVE LITTLE ROCK REPRESENTATIVE
Donald “Don Dez” Desjarlait William “Billy” Greene
Lee Lussier, Jr. Harlan R. Beaulieu
Polls will be open between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. at the following Reservation district voting places:
PONEMAH…………COMMUNITY CENTER
REDBY………………COMMUNITY CENTER
RED LAKE………….COMMUNITY CENTER
LITTLE ROCK………COMMUNITY CENTER
The Secretary of the Tribal Council will send a form to be used in requesting a ballot to each non-resident member whose address is known with this election announcement. Such forms will require that applicants for ballots sign the form, and give their former district residence on the reservation. The husband, in the instance of absentee member balloting (head of family) if living with his wife, shall be the one determining the district in which both he and his wife shall vote for a district representative.
A member applicant may use his own form of request letter providing he or she supplies the necessary information for identity. One ballot showing the candidates for Tribal Officers and the candidates for District Representatives will be sent to each qualifying member requesting an absentee ballot. Non-resident members of the Band may request absentee ballots from the Chairperson, Absentee Ballot Committee, P.O. Box 544, Red Lake, MN 56671.
Members on the resident voter list who for any reason have requested and effected change from resident voter list or who have for any reason have requested and effected change from resident to absentee voter list with the Secretary of the Tribal Council who personally appear at the office of the Absentee Ballot Committee, may vote by signing for and casting their ballots then and there, downstairs at the Red Lake Agency Building, Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. In addition, the Absentee Ballot Committee shall make itself available, on the weekend days of Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m., to receive in person absentee ballots during the last two weekends prior to the election. Their phone number is (218) 679-3341, ext. 1210.
Absentee ballots must be returned in person or mailed and received by the Chairperson, Absentee Ballot Committee, P.O. Box 544, Red Lake, MN 56671, on or before 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 19, 2006, the Election Day.
The absentee ballot committee shall make itself available in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the purpose of accepting absentee ballots from non-resident voters who are unable to mail or submit, in person, their absentee ballots. The Minneapolis polling site will be open from 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Monday, July 17, 2006, at the following location:
MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER
1530 EAST FRANKLIN AVE.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
No electioneering will be allowed at the polling sites. Violators will be removed from the premises.
No individual, other than an Election Board member who is specifically requested to do so, may assist or accompany voters to the voting booth, table, etc.
Any member of the Red Lake Band voting in the election may contest the results of the election within five days following the posting of the election results. A member contesting the results of the election shall prepare a written statement showing reasons for contest, and file such statement with the Chairperson of the General Election Board. The full General Election Board shall meet, consider and rule on the written request of the contesting member within a reasonable period of up to ten (10) days and may conduct a recount of ballots should it be deemed justifiable. No person other than the General Election Board shall be present at the meeting(s) of the General Election Board.
Decisions of the General Election Board made in accordance with the Election Code shall be final.
FOR : 8
AGAINST : 0
Floyd Jourdain, Jr., Chairman
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
I, the undersigned Secretary of the Tribal Council, hereby certify that the above Notice of Run-Off Election was duly presented and approved at a duly held Special Council Meeting held on Friday, June 2, 2006, with a quorum present, at the Red Lake Nation Headquarters, Red Lake.
Judy Roy, Secretary
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
Run-Off Election
NOTICE OF RUN-OFF ELECTION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2006
PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 94–06
TO ELECT TWO OFFICERS AT LARGE AND FOUR DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES, ONE FROM PONEMAH, REDBY, RED LAKE AND LITTLE ROCK DISTRICTS FOR A TERM OF FOUR YEARS OR UNTIL A SUCCESSOR IS DULY ELECTED, TO THE RED LAKE TRIBAL COUNCIL, RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS.
TO: MEMBERS OF THE RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS
Notice is hereby given of an election to be held by secret ballot on Wednesday, July 19, 2006, to elect a Chairman, Secretary and four District Representatives, one each from the Ponemah, Redby, Red Lake and Little Rock Districts to a four year term to serve on the Tribal Council of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians. This announcement is made in accordance with Article V of the Revised Constitution and By-Laws of the Red Lake Band and Chapter 1800 of the Tribal Code.
Any enrolled member of the Red Lake Band eighteen (18) years of age and over on election day shall be entitled to vote in this election.
Election rules and regulations contained within the Election Ordinance call for a filing period, filing fee, certification of eligibility, etc., and therefore, write-in candidates shall be ineligible and each District Election Board and the General Election Board are hereby instructed not to consider, list or count votes for write-in candidates. The only eligible candidates in each contest are those two individuals receiving one of the highest two vote tallies in their respective contests in the May 17, 2006, election. Those candidates are:
CHAIRMAN SECRETARY
Floyd “Buck” Jourdain, Jr. Kathryn “Jody” Beaulieu
Judy Roy Don Cook, Sr.
PONEMAH REPRESENTATIVE REDBY REPRESENTATIVE
Clifford C. Hardy Julius “Toady” Thunder
Gary L. Nelson, Sr. Tom “Jambi” Westbrook
RED LAKE REPRESENTATIVE LITTLE ROCK REPRESENTATIVE
Donald “Don Dez” Desjarlait William “Billy” Greene
Lee Lussier, Jr. Harlan R. Beaulieu
Polls will be open between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. at the following Reservation district voting places:
PONEMAH…………COMMUNITY CENTER
REDBY………………COMMUNITY CENTER
RED LAKE………….COMMUNITY CENTER
LITTLE ROCK………COMMUNITY CENTER
The Secretary of the Tribal Council will send a form to be used in requesting a ballot to each non-resident member whose address is known with this election announcement. Such forms will require that applicants for ballots sign the form, and give their former district residence on the reservation. The husband, in the instance of absentee member balloting (head of family) if living with his wife, shall be the one determining the district in which both he and his wife shall vote for a district representative.
A member applicant may use his own form of request letter providing he or she supplies the necessary information for identity. One ballot showing the candidates for Tribal Officers and the candidates for District Representatives will be sent to each qualifying member requesting an absentee ballot. Non-resident members of the Band may request absentee ballots from the Chairperson, Absentee Ballot Committee, P.O. Box 544, Red Lake, MN 56671.
Members on the resident voter list who for any reason have requested and effected change from resident voter list or who have for any reason have requested and effected change from resident to absentee voter list with the Secretary of the Tribal Council who personally appear at the office of the Absentee Ballot Committee, may vote by signing for and casting their ballots then and there, downstairs at the Red Lake Agency Building, Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. In addition, the Absentee Ballot Committee shall make itself available, on the weekend days of Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m., to receive in person absentee ballots during the last two weekends prior to the election. Their phone number is (218) 679-3341, ext. 1210.
Absentee ballots must be returned in person or mailed and received by the Chairperson, Absentee Ballot Committee, P.O. Box 544, Red Lake, MN 56671, on or before 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 19, 2006, the Election Day.
The absentee ballot committee shall make itself available in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the purpose of accepting absentee ballots from non-resident voters who are unable to mail or submit, in person, their absentee ballots. The Minneapolis polling site will be open from 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Monday, July 17, 2006, at the following location:
MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER
1530 EAST FRANKLIN AVE.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
No electioneering will be allowed at the polling sites. Violators will be removed from the premises.
No individual, other than an Election Board member who is specifically requested to do so, may assist or accompany voters to the voting booth, table, etc.
Any member of the Red Lake Band voting in the election may contest the results of the election within five days following the posting of the election results. A member contesting the results of the election shall prepare a written statement showing reasons for contest, and file such statement with the Chairperson of the General Election Board. The full General Election Board shall meet, consider and rule on the written request of the contesting member within a reasonable period of up to ten (10) days and may conduct a recount of ballots should it be deemed justifiable. No person other than the General Election Board shall be present at the meeting(s) of the General Election Board.
Decisions of the General Election Board made in accordance with the Election Code shall be final.
FOR : 8
AGAINST : 0
Floyd Jourdain, Jr., Chairman
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
I, the undersigned Secretary of the Tribal Council, hereby certify that the above Notice of Run-Off Election was duly presented and approved at a duly held Special Council Meeting held on Friday, June 2, 2006, with a quorum present, at the Red Lake Nation Headquarters, Red Lake.
Judy Roy, Secretary
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians