Apparently, Klein is wrong re need for in person votes.

Mort Klein issued a press release which I posted using his title.
ZOA’s In-Person Election Process Is Required by law

I just received this rebuttal:

Ted, with all due respect to you, you are drinking the Koolaid about the need for an appear-in-person Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

They are using smoke and mirrors to tightly assure the outcome of this election.  I used to be a true believer in Mort.  He surely deserves credit where credit is due, but his dereliction of duty in not assuring the filing of federal returns for three consecutive years and thereby losing its non-profit status and reputation because of continual abuse over the years (and I am not speaking of the Leftist Forward, which we know is all too happy to bring him down).

I also have researched the issue of electronic voting, which, by the way is used by all the national organizations to which I belong and is now also standard. Check out the New York state statues.  Only the Boards of Directors of non-profits must meet in person according to current NY state statute- and in the case of ZOA, ironically, the ZOA Board does not!

Mort and the Board are in violation of the law regarding the Board of Directors meetings.  The manipulation and cherry picking and characterization of ZOA member and mailing lists seems to be coming from the ZOA New York office, as far as I can determine.  There should not have been a change in ZOA bylaws 20 years ago to add a paid president in addition to a paid executive director and to eliminate regular, predictable elections for officers.  I voted for the Save ZOA via Mort it at the time. Mistake for the long-term good of the organization.

The term limits for president should have been restored a long ago to prevent the abuse that almost always comes with total single person control for a score of years. The oldtimers at that 1993 meeting argued vehemently against the coronation of Mort with pay and without term limits.  Mort should stay involved, but relinquish his white knuckled grip and allow for real future leadership of the ZOA.