Voter Turnout 15.9 Percent
It’s a wrap. Polls for APEGA Election 2012 closed at noon on April 1.
Voter turnout was 15.9 per cent, compared to 15.7 per cent in 2011. A total of 7,377 of the association’s 46,525 eligible voters took part.
Election results will be officially announced at the APEGA Annual General Meeting on April 21 at the Shaw Conference Centre, Salon 4, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
There were 21 candidates running for Council this year, one of the largest slates in APEGA history. Voters had from Feb. 27 to April 1 to cast their votes.
Written by Corinne Lutter
Top Issues for Council to Address
Is low voting participation due to the lack of knowledge Members have on candidates’ positions regarding the issues facing the engineering and geosciences professions? In James Hunting, P.Eng.’s blog, Young Members Less Likely to Vote (Jan.11, 2012), a common theme in the responses was that Members feel they don’t know where the candidates stand on the issues facing the Association.
But what are those issues?
Written by Alida Cameron, P.Eng.
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