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["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Joop,

Saturday, March 17, 2001, 6:22:07 PM, Joop Teernstra wrote:

> At 15:23 17/03/01 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:
>>Hello Jefsey,
>>
>>Saturday, March 17, 2001, 10:32:11 AM, Jefsey Morfin wrote:
>>
>>> I nominate
>>> -  Danny Younger e-mail: webmaster@babybows.com for Chair
>>> -  Patrick Corliss  e-mail: patrick@quad.net.au for co-Chair
>>
>>Jefsey, there is not two separate nomination processes for the Chair
>>and Co-Chair.
>>
>>The Co-Chair is elected in a separate second election from the
>>unelected candidates for Chair.
>>
>>Therefore, if you want Patrick to be considered for either position,
>>you should nominate him for Chair.
>>

> The candidates could make their acceptance conditional to being voted for
> as part of a ticket.
> Any other nominee can do this as well. (I accept the nomination, if people
> will vote for me as part of a Younger/Corliss ticket)

> There appears to be a general lack of will to discuss the current election
> rules, but in this way the candidates can create a ticket based approach
> themselves.
> If the voters do not like it, they will not vote for them. 

> Personally, I think that a ticket based approach is to the benefit of
> effective  GA Chairing and it is a pity that we do not have the time to
> discuss amending the election rules to achieve a better approach.

I don't agree that it is a better approach.  As a matter of fact, the
current rules spell out why the current approach is being taken.

I think that this concept was floated way too close to the current
election to be taken under consideration at this time.  If you want to
try and convince enough people that this system is superior to the
current one, you have time until the next election to do so.

I, however, do not believe this is a better approach.  Again you end
up with people possibly "Settling" for the best "combination" rather
than electing the two best possible candidates.

The combination is not nearly as important.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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