All Mass Chess members, including all Junior members, who are a member or become a member as of April 1, 2026, and register to vote on or before April 1, 2026, may vote in the upcoming Mass Chess Board election.

If you registered to vote previously, you do not have to register again, as long as you have continuously maintained your active Mass Chess membership. If your email address has changed, please complete the voter registration form and select the option to update your email address.

If you previously registered to vote, but your membership expires/lapses and you rejoin Mass Chess, you must register to vote again.

Find your name on the March 1 Member List, then look across to the Action(s) Required to Vote in 2026 Election column, which will inform you what actions (if any) you must take in order to vote. The entry in this column will be one of the following:

If you become or re-become a member on or before April 1, 2026, and you complete the voter registration form on or before April 1, 2026, you may vote in the 2026 election.

All Mass Chess members, including all Junior members, who are a member or become a member as of April 1 can register to vote by completing the voter registration form no later than Wednesday, April 1, 2026 at 11:59PM.

The form also lets you choose to vote using an online ballot or a paper ballot.

Alternatively, you may register to vote by a paper ballot via US mail, by sending a letter with your full name, USCF ID number, and mailing address to: Mass Chess Election c/o Larry Gladding, 165 Summer Street # 2, Lunenburg MA 01462. Your letter must be postmarked no later than April 1, 2026.

Yes! All junior members who are a member or become a member as of April 1, and complete the voter registration form on or before April 1, 2026, may vote in the upcoming Mass Chess Board election.

Please note that in order to vote by online ballot, each junior member must provide a unique email address. If a junior member does not have an email address of their own, we recommend the junior member chooses to vote by paper ballot when filling out the voter registration form.

Note: If the Election Committee discovers two or more members submitted the same email address in their voter registration forms, the impacted members will be notified and the email address conflict will be resolved either by the impacted members providing a different email address, and/or by issuing paper ballots, thus enabling the impacted members to still vote in the election.

Yes, Mass Chess will send periodic reminder emails to all members from now until the voter registration deadline of April 1.

We recommend you whitelist elections@masschess.org so these emails are delivered to you properly and are not spam-blocked by your email provider.

Members who registered to vote online: You will receive an email from Election Runner no later than April 30, 2026. This email will provide you with a unique Voter ID (login) and Voter Key (password), and a link to securely access and complete your online ballot. The online ballot will also include a link to view the entire list of candidates and candidate statements.

We strongly recommend you whitelist noreply@electionrunner.com so these emails are delivered to you properly and are not spam-blocked by your email provider.

Online ballots must be submitted no later than on Friday, May 22, 2026 at 11:59PM.

Members who registered to vote by paper ballot: You will receive via USPS mail a paper ballot, along with a printed list of candidates and candidate statements, and a stamped, addressed envelope for submitting the ballot. The Mass Chess Election Committee will mail these items no later than April 30, 2026.

Paper ballots must be returned in the envelope provided and postmarked by USPS mail on or before Friday, May 22, 2026 to be included in the final vote count, or hand-delivered in person to a member of the Election Committee at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel, 181 Boston Post Rd. West, Marlborough, MA (site of the 94th Massachusetts Open) by 12 noon on Saturday, May 23, 2026.

Note: The above dates assume that the Annual Meeting will take place on Monday, May 25, 2026 (Memorial Day). Under the Mass Chess bylaws, if the date of the Annual Meeting is changed, the voting deadline dates will also change.

Yes, all online ballots and paper ballots will be anonymous at all times. At no point of during review of online ballots or paper ballots will the Election Committee or any other persons be able to determine the voter who has cast any completed ballot.

The Election Committee will tally the paper ballots. Each paper ballot will be examined to ensure validity (e.g., no more than 8 directors voted for, etc.). The online ballots will be tallied by Election Runner and the results of this tally will be reviewed by the Election Committee. Finally, the Election Committee will tally the total combined paper and online votes for each candidate. As noted above, all ballots will be anonymous; there is no voter identification associated with any ballot.