When NCRA doesn’t like the way membership votes, they just bring the issue back up again for a vote a couple of years later.

So here we go again!

This time, the tactic is that there is a list of the same old, same old that are sponsoring this bylaw amendment.  And the Board has made a statement that they are taking a neutral stance on the issue because this is a membership-driven initiative, like they have no skin in this game.

Give us a break!

It is not a membership-driven initiative! Membership has voted and the vote was NO! to allowing voicewriters into NCRA.  It is an initiative proposed by just 15 members.  Fifteen people are not “membership.”  Fifteen people are just OPTICS!

This may be hearsay, but we’ve heard from multiple sources that one proponent is actually a teacher of reporting, and when they fail their students, they encourage those students to switch over to voicewriting.  Could this be because doing so GREATLY improves graduation statistics?  One has to wonder if they’re even graduating ANY shorthand reporters.

This has been NCRA’s long game that began years ago when the name was changed from the National Shorthand Reporters Association to the National Court Reporters Association.

Please come on out, AGAIN, NCRA members, and vote NO! to allowing voicewriters in NCRA!

WAKE UP, NCRA!
 FRANK N. SENSE

P.S.  Please verify your email address with NCRA by July 15 so that you are eligible to vote to say NO! to voicewriters … again!