Sault Tribe announces election results

NEWS RELEASE

SAULT TRIBE OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS

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SAULT STE. MARIE, MI. – The Sault Tribe election committee has announced unofficial results for this year’s tribal board election.

Voters selected two candidates for representative in Unit 1, and one candidate in Unit 2, Unit 3 and Unit 5.

The results are listed in alphabetical order and incumbents are marked with an asterisk.

Unit One (top two receive board seat)

DJ Hoffman* – 1,182 Diedrie J. Malloy – 1,564 Dennis McKelvie* – 1,132 Debra Ann Pine – 1,547

Unit Two (top one receives board seat)

Catherine Hollowell – 485 James Kelley – 417

Unit Three (top one receives board seat)

Douglas Goudreau – 680 Keith Massaway* – 752

Unit Five (top one receives board seat)

Joan Carr-Anderson – 262 Shirley Petosky* – 236

Denise Chase, Unit Four incumbent, was deemed elected pursuant to Tribal Election Ordinance as she ran unopposed.

Any contest regarding the vote count for the 2010 general election must be received by June 28, 2010.

Results will be certified and deemed official at the next board of directors meeting or within seven days of all contests being resolved.

For this election, 12,364 ballots were sent to tribal members with 5,814 of voters returning their ballots.

The tribe’s seven-county service area is divided into five election units encompassing Mackinac, Chippewa, Luce, Delta, Alger, Schoolcraft, and Marquette counties.

The term of all representatives is four years.

Elections for representatives from Unit 1, 2, 3 and 4, as well as the chairperson will be held in 2012.

These results are the unofficial results of the election for Units 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 representatives.

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