Coming Soon: RCA Online Voting, Reston Patch, Colin Mills, RCA President, April 26, 2012

On Monday, we had our monthly RCA Board meeting.  At the meeting, we discussed a number of exciting new initiatives that we're moving forward.  I'm sure I'll be telling you about many of them in this space in the coming weeks.

But perhaps our most complex project is one that will directly affect you.  We're changing the way we do our voting.  RCA is joining the 21st century, and making it easier than ever for you to cast your vote in our Board elections.

For at least the last decade, RCA has held its elections at the Reston Festival.  This has worked pretty well for us, but we've had several concerns about it.  It's not easy to convince people to vote at the Festival; people who attend are typically there to have a good time, not to cast ballots.  Also, the Festival falls in July, when many Restonians are out of town.  If folks are out of town when the Festival occurs, they were out of luck when it came time to vote.  And finally, there's a very real possibility that the Reston Festival might not happen this year.

Given all of these factors, we decided that it was time to look at other options for holding our elections.  We noted that other community organizations, like RCC and RA, have had success holding their elections online, and they've seen much higher turnout as a result.  Given those examples, we decided to do the same thing at RCA.

However, unlike RCC and RA, we don't have the resources to hire an outside firm to conduct our voting process.  So we're doing things the RCA way: with elbow grease and a cadre of smart, dedicated volunteers. . . .

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