Re: [ga] Discussion on Voting Registry

["todd glassey" <todd.glassey@worldnet.att.net>]

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From: <DannyYounger@cs.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 7:24 AM
Subject: [ga] Discussion on Voting Registry


> We supposedly have an electorate of 586 members.  368 did not vote on the
> last set of motions.
> The IDNO supposedly has a roster of 263 members.  259 did not vote on the
> last set of motions.
>
> This raises the question -- has a large chunk of our membership (like the
> members of the IDNO) stop functioning as members?  If so, are the
percentages
> that Alex has proposed appropriate?  Should the voting registry perhaps be
> recertified on an annual basis?

Yes at minimum. This can be done as an autonomic process by sending a letter
to each registered voter and email mandating their return acknowledgement.
This should be done to the email list yearly as well. And during the year if
any mailing list member's mail bounces and there is a corresponding
registered address in the voting pool, it also should be noted as such and
removed. In allinstence where any bounced mail is used to justify any
actions, the mail and its full headers must be kept as part of the evidence
of failed delivery, for at least one recertification period (meaning the
rest of the year until the entire list was to recertify).

> Should voters be decertified if they have
> missed, for example, 3 or 4 consecutive votes?  Should we become a
> self-sustaining organization by establishing a GA membership fee (which
would
> better define our membership roster)?  Do we have an obligation to help
> defray the costs of Secretariat services which make our voting procedures
> possible?
>
> Is it possible/probable that many constituency members aren't even aware
that
> they have the right to vote within the GA?  Should all constituency
members
> automatically be enrolled in the GA voting roster (after all, these are
folks
> that have already paid money to participate as members of the DNSO)?
>
> Have any members died that are still on the voting roster?
>
> I have noted that "percentages" have been used as a tool to discount the
vote
> of the GA.  Perhaps it is time to make sure that our Registry accurately
> reflects our membership, and that those that no longer participate at all
are
> culled from the process.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
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