RE: Membership criteria - was [ga] NC BS

["Dassa" <dassa@dhs.org>]

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: owner-ga-full@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga-full@dnso.org] 
|> On Behalf Of William X Walsh
|> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 2:19 PM
|> To: ga@dnso.org
|> Subject: Re: Membership criteria - was [ga] NC BS
|> 
|> 
|> Friday, May 17, 2002, 8:13:46 PM, t byfield wrote:
|> 
|> > but really, the idea that outreach/input promoted by motion #1
should
|> > be spoken of in the same context as (alleged) ballot-stuffing is
ludi-
|> > crous.
|> 
|> It's not ballot stuffing, its issue shopping by soliciting voters who
|> otherwise are not participants in the process.
|> 
|> A "residency requirement" of say 3 months would be an effective way
of
|> preventing that from occurring, without excluding people for
arbitrary
|> reasons.

A much better approach to this issue is to ensure an effective outreach
and have the numbers within the GA to negate any sort of ballot-stuffing
or other undesirable actions by a few.

Providing each person joining the GA is an individual their views are as
valid from day one as they would be after 3 months.

Of course, the above really only applies in an ideal world and the
practical facts do support the inclusion of a validating period after
initial membership application.  I would suggest a slightly shorter
period of one month however.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.

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