The ASTA election committee reviewed a complaint filed by Pennsylvania agent Alan Fiermonte regarding the conduct and outcome of ASTA's recent board of directors election and concluded the complaint was "not well founded," said Paul Ruden, ASTA's senior vice president of legal and industry affairs.

Accordingly, the election was allowed to stand as previously reported, Ruden said.

Fiermonte, a frequent critic of ASTA who ran unsuccessfully in the July board election, asked for a do-over based on his assertion that ASTA was working with corrupted or faulty data for eligible voters.

The balloting was conducted via email; results were announced July 24.

Fiermonte, who runs Down2earth Adventures, near Philadelphia, claimed that there were potentially ineligible tour operators or wholesalers that appeared on the list of voters' emails; that ASTA did not have email addresses for all voters; and that "hundreds" of those in the files were faulty, partly, he charged, because they included ineligible independent contractors, some duplicates and a couple of dead voters.

An unknown number were lost to spam filters, as well, Fiermonte charged.