Elections & Annual Meetings

Essential reading:

• Democracy Lost & Discrimination Found: The Crisis in Rural Electric Cooperatives in the South (Source: Rural Power Project)
  Description: Analysis of board representation on electric co-op boards in the South, most of the information is limited to what was available online so it leaves some co-ops out, but gives an overall sense of the makeup of these boards.

Suggested reading:

• Rural Electric Cooperative Election Toolkit (Source: RECET)
  Description: Candidacy Process

• Examining the Governance Crisis of Rural Electric Cooperatives: Following the Money! (Source: Rural Power Project)
  Description: Follow up to the resource listed above. Includes information on board and manager compensation and diversity of boards at some electric co-ops throughout the Southeast US. Limited to information available online and leaves some co-ops out.