Noteworthy > VSB NEWS Voting for President-Elect will be Online This year for the first time the election for president-elect of the Virginia State Bar will be conducted online rather than with paper ballots. Balloting will begin on October 31 and continue until the close of business on December 1. The change is being made to cut down on paperwork, save money and staff time, and ensure accuracy. The VSB has partnered with Survey & Ballot Systems (SBS) to administer the 2014 election. Voting members will receive an e-mail from SBS with instruc-tions on how to register their vote. To ensure e-mail with voting infor-mation arrives safely in your inbox on or around October 31, add the follow-ing e-mail address as a safe sender: noreply@directvote.net. These settings can be made in your e-mail account SPAM/Junk filters or by contacting your IT department. This process is often referred to as “whitelisting.” Please note that the subject of the online voting instructions e-mail will be “Virginia State Bar 2014 President-elect Election Login Information.” Members who have not already done so should add their e-mail addresses to VSB records to ensure that the information arrives. SBS will begin sending e-mails to all members on October 31 but because of the high volume, some may take more than a day to arrive. Members without e-mail addresses will receive an instruction letter. Those voters who prefer to vote by paper ballot will have to request the ballot by November 24. Join a VSB Section Got an Ethics Question? The VSB Ethics Hotline is a confidential consultation service for members of the Virginia State Bar. Non-lawyers may submit only unauthorized prac-tice of law questions. Questions can be submitted to the hotline by calling (804) 775-0564 or by clicking on the blue “E-mail Your Ethics Question” box on the Ethics Questions and Opinions web page at http://www.vsb.org/site /regulation/ethics/. There are twenty sections of the Virginia State Bar. Each is a separate group devoted to improving the practice of law in a particular substantive area or specialty practice. The sections operate under bylaws and policies approved by the Virginia State Bar Council. They elect their own officers and choose their own activities within the limits established by the Council. Section member-ship is open to all members in good standing of the Virginia State Bar. Many sections also have law student and associate memberships. See more information at http://www.vsb.org/site/members/sections. Support the Virginia State Bar Diversity Conference. Anyone can join, it’s free, and takes only about two minutes. Demonstrate your support for the Diversity Conference by becoming a member today. http://www.dcvsb.org/ 50 VIRGINIA LAWYER | October 2014 | Vol. 63 www.vsb.org