SNA Election 2022 The votes are in! Before we share them, we want to let you know that on February 27th, a system change resulted in individuals being able to vote in the election up to two times. This issue was immediately resolved, and the 99 duplicate ballots were removed prior to extraction of the election results from the system. Go to more information. SNA congratulates the following candidates for their election to the SNA Board of Directors and the Leadership Development Committee, and thanks to all the candidates for their enthusiasm and commitment to serve the national Association. The winning candidates for the Board of Directors will be installed in July and will serve under the leadership of incoming President Lori Adkins, SNS. The Leadership Development Committee members will serve a two-year term beginning March 1 under the leadership of Chair Reginald Ross, SNS. SNA Board of Directors Vice President Shannon Gleave, RDN, SNS Glendale Elementary School District Arizona Secretary/Treasurer Warren DeShields Bridgeton Public Schools New Jersey Director Lindsay Aguilar, RD, SNS Tucson Unified School District Arizona Director Michael Gasper, SNS School District of Holmen Wisconsin School Nutrition Employee/Manager Representative Heather Perry, SNS Union County Public Schools North Carolina SNA Leadership Development Committee Midwest Regional Representative Amanda Miller, SNS Des Moines Public Schools Iowa Southeast Regional Representative Maria Eunice, SNS Alachua County Public Schools Florida More information SNA moved to a new election services provider this year which enabled members to use single sign-on (SSO), meaning they could use their SNA username/password to vote in the election. On February 27, our election services provider applied a system-wide change to increase security. Specifically, they changed the ballot identifier key generation logic to be more consistent. The unique key logic is what allows the system to recognize when a user has already voted and prevent more than a single vote. The change resulted in a second key being generated for all open elections with SSO. This meant, if anyone tried to vote again after the change was made, the vote would be allowed since the key matching logic did not recognize there was already a ballot submitted by that individual. The election services provider was notified of the issue at 1:20 p.m. on February 28th and resolved it by 2:12 p.m. the same day. In the period between the change being applied and fix implemented, SNA sent out a final email to remind members to vote, and there were 99 duplicate ballots submitted. To remove the duplicate ballots, the election house used the original and second keys along with a unique identifier for each ballot to locate the second (duplicate) ballot and extract it from the system. This was completed without the results or ballot contents being visible to any individual. The election was closed as planned at 11:59 p.m. on February 28th and the results were reported to SNA. With the extraction of duplicates, we remain confident in the integrity and security of our election process. Back to the top