2025 Board of Directors Elections
As a member-owner of CORE Electric Cooperative, you have a voice. Members within each district elect a fellow member to serve a four-year term on CORE’s Board of Directors and represent their interests in CORE business and policies. In 2025, the board seats for Districts 3, 5 and 7 are up for election.
To be eligible to become or remain a director, a person must:
- be an individual 18 years of age or older;
- be a member of the cooperative;
- purchase electric energy within his or her director district; and
- not be a current employee of the cooperative, or formerly employed by the cooperative within the past five years.
2025 Elections Voting
On March 24, 2025, electronic voting will open and printed ballots will be mailed to members in Districts 5 and 7. Members in those two districts can vote electronically one of three ways:
- Via the SmartHub account management platform
- Via printed mail ballot
- Through the link sent via email directly from our independent election vendor, Survey & Ballot Systems (SBS)
The deadline for all electronic and mail ballots to reach SBS is Friday, April 25.
Eligible voters who do not vote electronically or via mail can vote in-person Saturday, April 26, between 9 and 10 a.m. at CORE’s headquarters in Sedalia. Voting by proxy is not permitted in director elections.
District 3 is uncontested. No ballots will be issued to members in that district.
Questions can be sent to elections@core.coop.
2025 Elections Schedule
- Jan. 26: First day to submit director nomination petitions
- Feb. 25: Last day to submit director nomination petitions
- March 12: Last day to submit nominee bios and positions statements for inclusion in ballots
- March 24: Electronic voting opens; printed ballots mailed to members who do not opt into electronic voting
- April 25: Deadline for all electronic and mail ballots to reach the independent elections vendor
- April 26: Annual meeting and elections
2023 Board of Directors Elections Results
Director elections in Districts 1, 2, 4 and 6 took place in 2023. An independent election vendor, Survey Ballots and Systems, conducted the elections, and results were announced at the CORE annual meeting April 22, 2023.
District 1
Mike Kempe 1,438 (44.4%)
Philip Varley 1,325 (40.9%)
Maurice “Mo” Klefeker 278 (8.6%)
Phil Rogers 198 (6.1%)
District 2
Ron Kilgore 1,922 (62.0%)
Dennis Finn 595 (19.2%)
Joe Berry 584 (18.8%)
District 4
Tim White 1,426 (52.1%)
Randy Reed 696 (25.4%)
James McGannon 614 (22.4%)
District 6
Robert Graf ran unopposed; ballots were not printed or mailed.