Re: [ga] withdrawal of candidacy

[kstubbs@digitel.net (Digitel - Ken Stubbs)]

am i to assume then that the vote i cast is for naught . given that the
election is still open, i should be give the opportunity to recast my vote
as should any party who originally voted for jonathan and wishes to recast
their vote for another person.

i would request that someone please advise me of my options

ken stubbs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sotiropoulos" <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>
To: "Kent Crispin" <kent@songbird.com>; <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] withdrawal of candidacy


> What to do?!?!
>
> Why... we go on with the election of course!
>
> Damn pity Jon Weinberg dropped out, but there's no need to stall the
> election... unless certain parties are apprehensive about... what, I
wonder?
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>         Hermes Network, Inc.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
> To: <ga@dnso.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 2:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [ga] withdrawal of candidacy
>
>
> > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:26:58AM -0700, Bret Fausett wrote:
> > > Kent Crispin wrote:
> > > >> Luckily, the instant-runoff voting system will allow any votes that
> people
> > > >> may have cast for me to be redistributed to other candidates.
> > > >
> > > > The question of what to do when a candidate withdraws in the midst
of
> > > > an election is a matter of policy, not mechanism.
> > >
> > > In most jurisdictions in the United States, as an example, the
practice
> is
> > > to inform the voters of the withdrawal but allow the election to
proceed
> as
> > > planned under the current ballot. (Of course, this practice has led to
> at
> > > least one dead man being elected to a high office. :-)
> >
> > Well, none of the candidates are dead, that I know of.  But we have no
> > established practice here, and it seems pretty clear that the NC will
> > have to make a determination.  Well, I suppose the GA could vote on
> > what to do...
> >
> > --
> > Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
> > kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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