The Rev. Cozy Bailey is on track to be elected the next president of the Virginia NAACP, according to outgoing president, Robert N. Barnette Jr.

Rev. Bailey, currently president of the Prince William County Branch, is the only candidate for the civil rights group’s top office on the ballot, Mr. Barnette said.

The election of offices is Saturday, Nov. 11, he said.

Delegates from branches across the state may vote from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Omni Hotel at 12th and East Cary streets in Shockoe Slip, he said.

The election was to be held during the group’s 88th annual convention that was scheduled for this weekend at the Omni.

But on Monday, Mr. Barnette confirmed, the convention was called off because of a snafu that would have left too few delegates to participate in the activities and the election.

The national office limited the number of delegates due to the failure of some branches to submit a required annual financial report, according to a report Monday to the executive committee.

Those branches were barred from sending del- egates to the convention as a result, according to the report.

Mr. Barnette said that rescheduling the election for Nov. 11 “should give us time to straighten out the paperwork” so that sufficient delegates can vote.

In 2019, Mr. Barnette replaced the Rev. Kevin Chandler, and then was elected to two full terms.

His apparent successor is a retired Marine lieutenant colonel whose 20 years of service included participa- tion in Operation Desert Storm in the 1990s.

Rev. Bailey is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and earned a master’s degree from Boston University.

He currently is an associate minister at First Mount Zion Baptist Church in Dumfries, where he makes his home.