Ballot Prep Committee

Our Purpose

The Ballot Prep Committee (BPC) oversees the proposal process – educating the fellowship, calling for and developing proposals, encouraging translations, compiling a Ballot, encouraging the vote, and tallying and announcing the results.

When do we meet?

We are currently meeting weekly on Thursdays at 6:00pm Eastern.
This schedule changes through the Ballot season, depending on our workload.

Meeting ID: 815 3118 9155
Passcode: 90755

How to contact us?

You can email us at: [email protected]

NEW DELEGATES
For assistance with the Ballot, with the Process, or for suggestions for gathering a Group Conscience, please contact us.

Our Members

Chair: Karin S. (IL, USA)
Members:
Amica (WV, USA), Kathleen S. (CA, USA), Mary Jo L. (IL, USA), Pam M. (CA, USA), Sue V. (Toronto, Can), Tamara P. (MN and SC, USA)

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BPC Committee Reports

You can find our reports here.

2026 Ballot Information

The 2026 Ballot voting ended on 15 April. The results are shown in the chart below along with a separate document containing only Proposal 24:

2026 Ballot Results for ABC
2026 Ballot Proposal 24 Only

As a reminder, only Proposals that received 66-2/3% or more yes votes qualify to be on the ABC Agenda. Abstain votes do not count in the total for computing these results.

For reference, the Ballot Proposals are in the documents below:

2026 ABC Ballot Proposals – English
2026 ABC Ballot Proposals – Portuguese
2026 ABC Ballot Proposals – Russian

For further reference, the Ballot Prep Committee hosted two Question and Answer (Q&A) sessions to give the Fellowship an opportunity to get answers to questions about the Ballot Proposals.

RECORDINGS:
Click HERE if you wish to download the recording from the March 1st session.
Click HERE if you wish to download the recording from the March 7th session.

The following links provide the list of Proposals covered in each of these sessions:
Q&A Session March 1, 2026
Q&A Session March 7, 2026

 

 

 

 

General Information

At the request of the Ballot Prep Committee, a motion was passed by the Board on October 4, 2025 that all dates for the annual ballot process be moved forward by fifteen (15) days, starting with the deadline for final proposal revisions. This revised schedule is as follows:

  • Proposal revisions (with BPC/Committee support):  Until November 15
  • WSO Analyses Due:  December 15
  • Translations Due:  January 15
  • Ballot Published:  January 23
  • Town Halls / Proposal Q&A:  January–February
  • Online Voting Period:  March 1–April 15
  • Results Published:  April 18