Reminder - Electoral Officer Call for Nominations for 2015 MCK Elections

04/01/2015

The Executive Director’s Office of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke would like to remind the community that the Call for Nominations for the Electoral Officer of the 2015 Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke Elections ends tomorrow, Thursday, April 2nd at 4pm.

Nominations must be proposed and seconded by two Nominators who are listed as members on the Kahnawà:ke Kanien’kehá:ka Registry.

Nominees must sign a privacy waiver to allow verification that they meet the following eligibility requirements:

•    must be over the age of twenty-one (21) years;
•    must meet the requirements of the Kahnawà:ke Membership Law and be listed as a member on the Kahnawà:ke Kanien’kehá:ka Registry;
•     must be ordinarily resident in Kahnawà:ke; and
•     must not have been, within the previous six (6) years, convicted and sentenced for a criminal offense. The six (6) year ban commences only after sentence has been served in full.

The nomination period began on Thursday 19, Enniskó:wa/March.

For further information or to obtain a copy of the Electoral Officer Terms of Reference, please contact Lana Snow, Administrative Assistant, Executive Office, at 450-632-7500, ext. 2284.

Community members who wish to nominate a candidate can pick up nomination forms during regular business hours at the main building of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke.