NOTICE: NETCo Dems Special Meeting

Sunday, January 30, 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom See notes of the meeting under References.

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Agenda

1. Announcement of Member Vote on Update of Bylaws

This update implements diversity resolution approved in December last year and some administrative clean up. Proposed changes to be posted at https://www.netcodems.com/news. Vote will be online February 3rd to 18th. Result will be announced at meeting on February 19.

Members in good standing will receive an email with the link to the ballot.

2. Announcement of Election of Officers

Bylaws require election of President and Secretary in first quarter of even numbered years. Election this year will be at the March meeting.

Executive Committee requests individuals interested in running for either office to contact a member of the EC by the February meeting.

3. Questions as time allows

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Zoom access link available at

NETCo Dems Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/netcodems) and

NETCo Dems notification group (https://groups.io/g/NETCoDems).

NETCo Dems 2022 Democratic Primary Election Candidate Endorsements

An endorsement by the NETCo Dems is an official declaration of confirmed support of 65% or more of eligible members casting ballots in a NETCo Dems endorsement vote for a candidate in a Primary, General, or Special Election. Club funds and in-kind support may be disbursed only to campaigns endorsed by the membership.

From January 1st to January 15th, 2022, a majority of NETCo Dems members in good standing voted to endorse candidates for the offices listed in the table in the attached file.

NETCo Dems 2022 Endorsement Results Letter FINAL 2022-01-16.pdf

Download PDF • 321KB

Half of applications for ballot by mail rejected!

KUT Radio (Ashley Lopez, https://www.kut.org/politics/2022-01-13/texas-senate-bill-1-election-officials-vote-by-mail-identification) is reporting:

“Travis County Clerk's office says that as of today, their office 'has rejected about fifty percent of applications for ballot by mail that have been received for the March 1, 2022 primary election,' due to changes to ID requirements made by Texas' new voting law.

"The new law, SB 1, requires that voters provide the same ID number -- driver's license, social, etc. -- on their VBM app that they provided on their voter registration. Many folks who registered a long time ago, don't remember what ID they used.

"For those asking, according to the @TXsecofstate's office, you can correct the ID information using the state's new ballot tracker website: teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do”

(Quotes from Twitter: @AshLopezRadio)

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• If you are applying for ballot by mail be sure to include both driver’s license and social security numbers.

• If you have already applied, check the status of your application on the SoS site mentioned above or with the County.

NOTE: At the time of this writing, the vote by mail part of Travis County’s https://votetravis.com is off line.