All MEA members should count

I am writing because I am very disturbed by the MEA (Matanuska Electric Association) Board of Directors’ recent 4-to-3 vote not to contact members when their ballots have been rejected. The idea, put forward by Peter Burchell, was that if a ballot was thrown out, the owner of that ballot should be contacted and asked to submit another. Since most ballots are rejected because the signature doesn’t match the signature card on file, this would give the members the chance to update their signature cards as well so it doesn’t happen again. Our telephone co-op, MTA, does this, and MEA used to.