Voting Information

 

KPFA Protectors can help you get a ballot and/or with voting. For help, Contact us on this website or email us at: info@kpfaprotectors.org

Electronic ballots are emailed starting August 15th and continue to be sent weekely from the Pacifica Foundation Inc until the end of voting September 30.

Voter Eligibility: To VOTE in this election you must have donated to KPFA between July 1st, 2023 and June 30th 2024

Getting an Electronic Ballot

The majority of KPFA members will be sent an email ballot. It may be in a “spam” folder. You may click or It and use the included Elector ID - and Password- to access the ballot. Or you may get a phone text to access your ballot.

The Pacifica Foundation may not have a current email address for you. To Request a Ballot

For help write to us at kpfaprotectors@gmail.com and please leave a phone number.

Or go directly to the 2024 BALLOT REQUEST FORM

•   Fill out the form with your contact information

•   Indicate listener or staff KPFA member

(ignore the reset and elector ID ballot reset).

•   Write a separate request if there is a second household member because together you donated more than $50. Be sure to include a different email address for the second household member.

It may take a week or more to get your replacement ballot. Better not to submit multiple requests. The replacement ballot may include Pacifica or KPFA in the subject.  

BALLOTS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 TO BE COUNTED  

Voting is a little Complicated with many candidates.

Please VOTE for all 8 KPFA Protectors endorsed Candidates in this order. It is important that you mark your first choice #1 because of Single Transferable Voting.  There are 9 seats open on the KPFA Local Station Board and we suggest that you vote only for the 8 KPFA Protectors endorsed candidates in the order below to help them get elected.  

Seven of our candidates are current or past KPFA Local Station Board (LSB) or Pacifica National Board (PNB) members.

  1. Zack Kaldveer, - Elected - PNB Director, Independent Media Journalist

  2. Fred Dodsworth, - Elected - PNB Director, Journalist, Publisher

  3. Carol Wolfley, - Elected - LSB Secretary, Climate Emergency Outreach

  4. Christina Huggins, - Elected - LSB Treasurer, Staff & Union Support

  5. Steve Kucala, - Elected - Safeguarding KPFA’s Building & Music

  6. Aki Tanaka, Effective Representative & Functional Governance

  7. Andrea Turner, Social Justice Music, Fiscal Accountability

  8. Colleen Mast, Outreach to Youth & New Communities

If you cannot vote electronically, you can request a paper ballot using an online ballot request form