RE: [kent@songbird.com: draft application]

["John B. Reynolds" <john@reynolds.nu>]

> Members of each constituency shall nominate individuals to represent
> that constituency.  Nominations within each constituency may be made
> by any member of the constituency, provided, however, that each
> member of a constituency may make no more than one nomination for a
> Names Council member representing that constituency.  An entity that
> is a member of more than one constituency may make one nomination for
> each constituency of which it is a member.  Every nominee shall be
> identified as representing a particular geographical region.
>
> Elections for Names Council members shall be held once each year for
> vacant seats.  The term of office for each member of the Names
> Council is three years, staggered so that each year one third of the
> Names Council members shall be elected.
>
> Each member of the DNSO may cast one vote for one nominee for
> membership in the Names Council from each of the constituencies.
>

Am I reading this correctly - Names Council members are elected by the
entire DNSO membership, rather than by the consituencies they represent?  If
one or two constituencies constitute a majority of DNSO members, they could
determine the entire NC membership.