[ga] Two things troubling me with the GA Chair elections...

["Mark C. Langston" <skritch@home.com>]

Two things started bothering me this morning regarding the current
GA Chair elections:

1)  The NC and officers of the DNSO are being allowed to vote -- something
   that Caroline Chicoine changed the voting procedures to allow at the
   very last minute.
   (http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc03/msg00173.html).

   Elizabeth Porteneuve, the person responsible for the voting rules and
   the Secretariat for the DNSO, has officially voiced support for a
   candidate, as has Ken Stubbs, one of the Registrars NC members.

   While I do believe the NC members have a right to participate in the
   GA, I find it improper that they be allowed to influence a decision
   on which they have final say.


2) Discussions among the NC made it clear that they would not be willing
   to accept a result in which only one or two candidates were put forth
   for their selection.  Yet clearly, this is what's about to happen.
   I find it interesting that the NC, who feared we might give them
   no choice in the matter, is now content to sit back and let the 
   process continue as long as their "choice" is a candidate for which
   their own members have voiced support.


Am I alleging misconduct?  No;  at least, not as such.  But I must 
say that I find this improper.

-- 
Mark C. Langston
mark@bitshift.org
Systems Admin
San Jose, CA