Under the “rationale” of the voice writers’ bylaw amendment, so many of the same-old/same-old proposers talk about NCRA’s commitment to stenographic reporting:

“This amendment does not [emphasis in original] alter the Association’s commitment to the promotion of stenographic reporting as a professional discipline …”

If we recall back to arithmetic lessons in our elementary school days, if voice writers are added as full-fledged voting members, that will absolutely dilute the voting power of verbatim stenographic reporters.  You know, fractions, percentages, basic math.  It is simply a mathematical certainty that dilution absolutely equals altering NCRA’s commitment to verbatim stenographic reporters.  To use a technical math term for the “rationale,” WUNCRA calls MALARKEY!  It gets a big, fat F!

Already the executive director and past boards have been diluting stenographers by lumping us in as “capturers” in NCRA’s Mission Statement.  If voice writers (and videographers) are given full voting privileges, IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE.

WE NEED AN ASSOCIATION THAT REPRESENTS VERBATIM STENOGRAPHERS … ONLY!

WAKE UP, NCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE

P.S. Please send this to every stenographer that you know so that they VOTE NO! to voice writers and videographers becoming voting members of NCRA on July 16, 2026.

EVERY … SINGLE … VOTE … MATTERS!