Timeline * August 5: Lowdown Article * August 5: Draft of first email complete * August 8: First Email to ''all'' members (Agenda, Explanation of LC elections) * August 15: Draft of postal mailings complete * August 19: Mail merge process ready to go for postal mailing, copies made * August 22: Nomination Period Begins * August 22: Special email to Lowdown list announcing nominations goes out * August 22: Postal mailings goes out August 22, 2011 * August 29: Voter registration system completed and ready for testing * September 1: Draft of Action plan for 2012 written (directors' proposed 10 points of action) * September 1: Draft of Sept lowdown completed on Final Preparations, including survey link and voter registration * September 1: Survey completed * September 3: Action plan for 2012 sent to Lowdown list (proposed 10 points of action) * September 5: September Lowdown Article released * September 5: Online voter registraiton period begins (only for online voters, not for in person voters) * September 5: Phone calls begin * September 5: Draft of Reports Complete * September 12: Final Email to ''all'' members, includes voter registration link. * September 12: Voting System completed and ready for testing * Survey to members