Ballots to nominate a candidate to serve as the National Automobile Dealers Association director representing most of Illinois have been sent to dealers in those 99 counties.
 
Completed ballots nominating not more than one person must be received — not merely postmarked — by the NADA by July 3.

 

Downstate dealer Jamie Auffenberg, who since 2010 has been the NADA director representing 99 of the state’s 102 counties, is running for another three-year term. Dealers in the three other Illinois counties — Cook, Lake and DuPage — are represented by Joe Massarelli, president of Liberty Auto City, in Libertyville. Massarelli has been an NADA director for one year.
 
To qualify as a nominee, a dealer must receive at least 10% of the total nominations cast. If none receives that minimum, further nominations would be sought. If the nominating process qualifies a single dealer, that dealer would be declared elected without further balloting.
 
Auffenberg holds franchises with nine manufacturers: Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, Jeep, Kia, Mazda, Nissan, Ram and Volkswagen. His stores are in Belleville, Illinois; and O’Fallon, Missouri.