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How does NACo determine the number of votes each county receives? The number of votes is determined by the amount of dues a county pays. Dues are based on population. All counties are entitled to at least one vote. Members with more than $499 in dues are entitled to one additional vote for each additional $500 in dues or fraction thereof paid in the year the meeting is held. • Counties with dues of $400 to $499 receive one vote. • Counties with dues of $500 to $999 receive two votes, and so on. • The maximum number of votes a county can receive is 121. My county has 10 votes. How can our 25 commissioners divide or share the votes? That is up to your county. NACo has no rule as to how counties decide to allocate their votes. Counties may split their vote amongst the candidates running for second vice president if it is desired. I've heard the term "unit vote" used. What is that? Some states, by custom or policy, cast all of their votes as a block or "unit." State associations typically have a meeting before the election to determine how they will handle the voting process. • Check with your state association regarding the time, date and location of this meeting. • NACo bylaws permit each county to cast its vote as it chooses. Your county does not have to vote with your state association should you so choose. When does the voting take place? This year's election will be held on Monday, July 25, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. at the NACo Annual Business Meeting. How does the voting occur? Votes are cast by state, not by state association. Counties from a state sit together as a delegation. The reading clerk will call out states at random. A state appointed representative will approach the microphone and call out that state's vote. This will continue until one of the candidates has a majority of the total number of votes being cast. Voting may still continue after a majority has been reached. What is a roll call? Roll call is a way of voting for NACo resolutions to be passed. If a roll call is necessary, the names of the states will be read out in alphabetical order by the reading clerk. A state appointed representative will approach the microphone and call out that state's vote as "yes" or "no." This will continue until all votes have been cast. What happens if there is a dispute over the election process? It is rare, but sometimes irregularities occur with how votes are cast or counted, or how the credentialing process is conducted. As a safeguard elections may be challenged during the voting process at the NACo Annual Business Meeting. Challenges are allowed under two circumstances. A voting delegate may challenge the vote for his/her state, and his /her state only. A candidate running to become a NACo officer may challenge the vote of any state. If a challenge is made, the NACo Credentials Committee may audit the ballots of a state delegation to ensure that the number of votes the state is casting matches the number of ballots the state has. The committee may also audit the ballot transfer records on the back of each ballot and the State Voting Totals Form, which is a form states fill out showing the number of votes cast for each candidate. F -2 Page 77