BE IT RESOLVED:

That the International Union Constitution, Appendix D, Elections Code, Section 1 is amended to read as follows:

Section 1. General provisions.

A. No funds or other resources of the Federation or of any subordinate body, and no funds or resources of any employer, shall be used to support the candidacy of any member for any elective office within the Federation or any subordinate body.

B. No publication sponsored by or supported by the Federation or any subordinate body shall endorse or support any candidate for elective office within the Federation or any subordinate body.

C. Any nominee or announced candidate for elective office shall have the right once prior to the election to have mailed, through the union office but at private expense, campaign literature. In a local union election, such literature may be mailed to each member in good standing. In an International Union or council election, such literature may be mailed to each affiliated subordinate body and/or to each member in good standing.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:

            That the International Union Constitution, Appendix D, Elections Code, Section 2 is amended to read as follows:

Section 2. Election of subordinate body officers.

D. Not less than fifteen days prior to the holding of nominations for local union officers, a notice of the nominations and elections shall be mailed to each member at the member’s last known home address.  Notice of nominations and elections for council officers shall be sent to each affiliated local not less than fifty days prior to the election or notice may be given as required by the council’s approved constitution.

J. Upon completion of the voting, the ballots shall be tabulated and the candidate for each office receiving a majority of the votes cast for that office shall be declared elected. Any remaining unfilled offices shall be filled through a run-off election in which there shall be a ballot bearing two names for each office to be filled, such names being those nominees who received the greatest number of votes in the first balloting and the candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. Those elected shall be installed in office immediately upon the subordinate body’s acceptance of Election Committee’s general report on the but in no event later than 10 days after the tabulation of the election ballots, and regardless of any election related protests that are filed. at Upon installation of the new officers, which time the names, addresses and terms of office of the newly elected officers shall be submitted to the International Secretary-Treasurer so that credential cards may be issued in accordance with the provisions of Article IX, Sections 18 and 23, of this Constitution. The preelection incumbents shall remain in office until new officers are installed. The Election Committee will inform the subordinate body of the results of the tabulation of ballots.

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED:

            That the International Union Constitution, Appendix D, Elections Code, Section 4 is amended to read as follows:

Section 4. Challenges and protests. 

B. Any protest concerning the conduct of the election may be lodged at the meeting at which the election is conducted or by filing such protest in writing with the subordinate body or the Election Committee within ten days following the election. All interested parties shall be afforded an opportunity to be heard. The membership of the subordinate body shall either accept or reject the recommended decision of the Election Committee Such protests shall be decided by the subordinate body not later than thirty days after the filing of the protest.