{"id":2097,"date":"2026-01-30T08:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:15:44","slug":"have-you-completed-your-referendum-election-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/2026\/01\/30\/have-you-completed-your-referendum-election-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Completed Your Referendum Election Vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NARFE Referendum Election email was sent on January 26, with voting open through February 24. Members have reported several issues: some received an invalid unique pin in the email, others did not receive a unique pin, and still others did not understand how to access the ballot. The FEDHub posts indicate other concerns. If you have not voted, I recommend reviewing the <a href=\"https:\/\/fedhub.narfe.org\/communities\/community-home?communitykey=ef954e44-cd84-41dc-8d75-019b9a7665cd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2025 NARFE Bylaw Proposal Community<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>posts. You can view the posts without joining the community.<\/p>\n<p>Another member provided the following regarding voting guidance in the January 26th email:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Took about 2 minutes after logging in, using the information in the January 26th email.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Go to the 3rd line in the email and click on (<strong>https:\/\/vote.escvote.com\/narfe<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Log in using the information in the 26th email (member number and unique voting PIN (lines 4 and 5 of the email) and follow the directions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">If you need Assistance? Please email <strong>narfehelp@electionservicescorp.com<\/strong> or call <strong>1-866-720-4357<\/strong> on Monday \u2013 Friday between 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>It is recommended that all our members consider this carefully and ensure they vote if they have not already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Referendum Election Guidance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2026\/01\/2026-01-07-Referendum-Logo-727x545-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}