A new election is scheduled to decide who will lead the Baltimore Teacher's Union, 11 News has learned.It comes a week after an apparent upset of longtime union President Marietta English. The new development comes on the heels of an investigation conducted by the union's Nominations and Elections Committee, which said it has found enough evidence to call for a new election.On paper after last week's election, Diamonte Brown was declared the president of the Baltimore Teacher's Union -- its first new president in 21 years. Brown received 901 votes to her opponent's 839 votes. The results came into question, along with how Brown's campaign may have gone about getting teachers and other union members to vote, which was why English called for an investigation."I'm very confident of a different outcome," English said.English said some of the violations included "using Baltimore public school emails, campaigning in the building when they were told not to, going to homes of people on my slate."A member of English's election team said there were other specific violations, as well."These are things they should have known, which are definitely against the rules, that led to intimidating people to vote in a certain type of way," said Corey Debnam.So far, there has been no official response to the new election from Brown. Brown told 11 News last week she was not surprised by the initial election challenge, saying, "I'm all about democracy. She has the right to challenge and I have no problem with her challenging."There's no word on when the second election will take place. Both sides are hoping for a better turnout. Fewer than 2,000 people cast ballots in the first election.
BALTIMORE — A new election is scheduled to decide who will lead the Baltimore Teacher's Union, 11 News has learned.
It comes a week after an apparent upset of longtime union President Marietta English. The new development comes on the heels of an investigation conducted by the union's Nominations and Elections Committee, which said it has found enough evidence to call for a new election.
On paper after last week's election, Diamonte Brown was declared the president of the Baltimore Teacher's Union -- its first new president in 21 years. Brown received 901 votes to her opponent's 839 votes. The results came into question, along with how Brown's campaign may have gone about getting teachers and other union members to vote, which was why English called for an investigation.
"I'm very confident of a different outcome," English said.
English said some of the violations included "using Baltimore public school emails, campaigning in the building when they were told not to, going to homes of people on my slate."
A member of English's election team said there were other specific violations, as well.
"These are things they should have known, which are definitely against the rules, that led to intimidating people to vote in a certain type of way," said Corey Debnam.
So far, there has been no official response to the new election from Brown. Brown told 11 News last week she was not surprised by the initial election challenge, saying, "I'm all about democracy. She has the right to challenge and I have no problem with her challenging."
There's no word on when the second election will take place. Both sides are hoping for a better turnout. Fewer than 2,000 people cast ballots in the first election.
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