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
