The ability of a single vote was on full show yesterday in Nashville, the place actor and stuntman Invoice “Bilbro” Yarbrough defeated his nearest rival by a single vote to win a seat on the guild’s nationwide board of administrators.

The voting there additionally exhibits the ability of apathy, with solely 213 (15%) of the Nashville native’s 1,422 eligible members casting ballots. Yarbrough defeated Bob Bailey, his nearest rival, by a vote of 78 to 77. A 3rd candidate, Evans Donnell, acquired 56 votes.

Yarbrough is now the primary candidate elected to the nationwide board as a part of the dissident faction led by Maya Gilbert-Dunbar, who’s operating towards incumbent President Fran Drescher. Peter Antico, Gilbert-Dunbar’s operating mate, is squaring off towards incumbent secretary-treasurer Joely Fisher.

Drescher and Fisher are a part of a Unity slate that was shaped earlier this yr when the guild’s ruling Unite for Power faction and the opposition’s MembershipFirst faction determined to place apart their variations and be a part of forces within the lead as much as the guild’s ongoing strike, which began on July 14. Two years in the past, Drescher was Elected President on the prime of the Unite for Power ticket, whereas Fisher was elected as a part of the MembershipFirst slate.

However unity solely goes to date in SAG-AFTRA’s usually bitter politics. MembershipFirst candidates who ran for nationwide president within the final three elections – Matthew Modine and Esai Morales – aren’t a part of the Unity ticket, however are looking for reelection as unbiased candidates for seats on the board of the Los Angeles native. Modine misplaced to Drescher two years in the past and to Gabrielle Carteris 4 years in the past, and Morales misplaced to Carteris in 2017.

Elliott Gould, Diane Ladd and Rob Schneider are three different former MembershipFirst stalwarts who are actually operating as unbiased candidates for reelection to seats on the L.A. native and nationwide boards. And former Display Actors Guild president Alan Rosenberg, one other former chief of MembershipFirst, is operating as an unbiased for a seat on the L.A. native board.

And whereas Modine, Morales, Gould, Ladd, Schneider and Rosenberg are usually not instantly affiliated with Gilbert-Dunbar’s opposition group, they’ve been endorsed by it.

You possibly can see the Gilbert-Dunbar group’s voter information right here:

And listed below are all of the candidates operating on the Unity slate’s ticket:

The guild’s nationwide elections received’t be determined till September 8, when ballots may even be counted for the Los Angeles and New York native races. However many different native races have already been determined.

Operating unopposed, Amanda Melby has been elected president of the Arizona-Utah native; Shelley Waggener has been elected president of the Missouri Valley native; Casey E Lewis has been elected president of the Twin Metropolis native; Carla Christina Contreras has been elected president of the Nashville native, and Deborah Horne has been elected president, and Rik Deskin has been elected to the nationwide board, representing the Seattle native.

In contested races which have already been determined, Andrea Lyman has been elected president of the New England native, and Talia Pura has been elected president of the New Mexico native.