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Marinello, Hanke, and Schultz Elected to Executive Board
Women�s International Master Beatriz Marinello of New York, Timothy Hanke of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and former USCF President Donald Schultz of Highland Beach, Florida, have been elected to the United States Chess Federation (USCF) Executive Board. All USCF members age 16 or over who reside in the United States (including US territories and overseas military delivery addresses) were entitled to vote in the election, and a total of 1830 ballots were received. There were six candidates for three open positions on the seven-member board. The vote count is 1009 votes for Marinello, 888 votes for Hanke, 870 votes for Schultz, 707 votes for Dr. Joseph Wagner of Los Angeles, CA, 653 votes for Sam Sloan of Woodside, New York, and 601 votes for Mikel Petersen of Longwood, Florida. 95 write-in candidates also received one or more votes. E. Steven Doyle of Morristown, New Jersey led the write-ins to finish in seventh place with 159 votes.
Upon Delegate certification of election results at the annual USCF Delegates� meeting in Los Angeles, CA, August 9-10, Marinello, Hanke, and Schultz will each serve a four-year term. They will join incumbent board members John McCrary of West Columbia, South Carolina, Stephen Shutt of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Frank Camaratta of Toney, Alabama, and Dr. Frank Brady of New York, New York. McCrary, Shutt, Camaratta, and Brady, who were each elected to four-year terms in 2001, will remain on the board until the next election in 2005.
The ballots were counted on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at the USCF national headquarters in New Windsor, New York by USCF employees Kathy Dantico, Traci Lee, Dale Lein, Judy Misner, and Barbara Vandermark under the supervision of chief teller Glenn Petersen and Election Procedures Committee co-chair William Goichberg. Marinello, Schultz, and Sloan were also present during the count.
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