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Conference 7.286::dcu

Title:	DCU
Notice:	1996 BoD Election results in 1004
Moderator:	CPEEDY::BRADLEY

Created:	Sat Feb 07 1987
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1041
Total number of notes:	18759

491.0. "One Petition Candidate's Experience" by GUFFAW::GRANSEWICZ (Vote for DCU Petition Candidates) Wed Mar 11 1992 22:22

	The following describes another petition candidate's experience
	while running for the Board a few years ago.  This candidate
	contacted me and wanted it to be made known what petition
	candidates could be up against.

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	I would like you to know the form of harassment I took while
	trying to get elected.  Even though we weren't given much time
	between submission of our "petition submission" and election/ballot
	time, they wanted 2 weeks to approve any campaign materials.  I
	simply restated the same "short qualification paragraph" they
	published in the election announcement going out to all members.
	I was handing them out around MKO.  I also had a friend
	sitting at a table in the cafeteria here at MKO asking
	for votes for me.  They said this was "unauthorized" campaigning
	and threatened to remove my name from the ballot.  They backed off
	when I asked them who my lawyer should contact for improper election
	policies. 

	The next two years I got no announcements of coming elections
	from the DCU.   On the 3rd year, I asked the DCU MKO branch
	manager why I wasn't getting the announcements about the elections
	or a ballot.  (On several occasions.)  When she finally got back to
	me, I found my birthdate had been changed from 2-Jul-1930 to
	2-Jul-1983, thus making me "too young" to receive such material....
	tricky huh?
	
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T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
491.1	Any good stories for this year?	SMAUG::GARROD	An Englishman's mind works best when it is almost too late	`Thu Mar 12 1992 20:16`	6
	I was just wondering. I doubt whether any petition candidate has come up against anything so blatantly biased this year. What's the worse that has happened? Taking down posters is one thing but in my mind changing someones recorded birthdate is in a different league. Dave
491.2	On the flip side...	GUFFAW::GRANSEWICZ	I'm voting for REAL CHOICE candidates next week	`Sat Mar 14 1992 14:09`	7
	Now that I think about this a little more, if somebody could change the birthdate of somebody so they don't get a ballot, they could also change the birthdate so somebody under age COULD receive a ballot. Should this be a concern? Not that I don't trust DCU to hold a completely fair election and count. Just like they did at the Special Meeting. Maybe a call to the NCUA is in order?
491.3		SSDEVO::EGGERS	Anybody can fly with an engine.	`Sat Mar 14 1992 15:48`	2
	Not on the basis of just one example that could very well be a simple clerical error.
491.4	clerical error?	RGB::SEILER	Larry Seiler	`Sun Mar 15 1992 22:29`	12
	re .3: How often is the non-financial data that the DCU keeps on us altered in their data base? Aside from addresses, I would have guessed almost never. Sometimes somebody changes their name, but I really don't see how a clerical error could result in a change in birth year. Assuming that this event really happened and assuming that it was an accident, it still seems to me to be very important for the DCU to figure out how it could have happened, to keep it from happening again. Enjoy, Larry
491.5	Food for thought	TLE::AMARTIN	Alan H. Martin	`Tue Mar 17 1992 19:54`	8
	Is it possible to defraud DCU (or the IRS) by changing the age of account holders (perhaps something to do with tax law)? If so, you'd expect there to be journaling of the "change age" transactions, and you'd expect the journaling to be preserved for examination by auditors. And you'd expect to be able to find out which person allegedly altered the account record... /AHM
491.6	Will Judge Crater please be counted?	OASS::MDILLSON	Generic Personal Name	`Wed Mar 18 1992 11:11`	2
	You know, this is beginning to sound an awful lot like Chicago politics in the Daley regime. I wonder when the dead will start voting? ;-)