Young members of the $381 million Lafayette Federal Credit Union who organized an effort to win two board seats failed to do so but suggested they would keep on working for change in the Kensington, Md., institution.

David Zuckerman and Chris Bohner gathered enough signatures to put their names on the credit union's ballot for the May 17 election, but in the end each managed to gather only 25% of the votes actually cast, or 373 out of the possible 14,000 ballots, they reported.

Their opponents, incumbent board members Eric Benderson, an attorney with the Small Business Administration, and Treasurer Richard Ginsburg, a senior international trade specialist for the SBA, retained their seats.

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