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Re: [atlarge-discuss] For the sake of transparency: Nominators
At 10:22 p.m. 5/05/2003, Richard Henderson wrote:
The people below "ticked" the names of certain other (undisclosed) people
who they were happy to see nominated.
Not quite undisclosed. The list can be viewed by all 881 members with a
current password to the Polling Booth.
It consists of all members active enough to vote, plus a few that are
active on this list, but for some reason did not vote.
The list below is not a list of
nominations. The list below is not a list of people accepting nominations.
The list below is simply people who went to the Polling Booth and expressed
an opinion.
For example, I did, and I'm listed below, but I have no desire to be
nominated or to stand for election.
I hope that you will change your mind in order to give this election a chance.
Would you perhaps be willing to stand for a 5 person Panel, with a mandate
to bring structure to icannatlarge and organize proper elections for the
Officers that the members want?
Plus a secondary mandate to facilitate the writing of a Charter and submit
the most urgent parts (such as Mission Statement) to the members for early
ratification?
The real question is: if only 4 or 5 people accept nominations to an
11-person panel, should the elction carry on? What do you do?
Get enough acceptances to fill a smaller Panel and avoid default candidates.
Thinking laterally, an alternative would be to hand over the running of the
organisation to the Polling Booth, and simply let the membership define the
direction and policies and actions, step by step, through regular polls.
For that alternative to work, we would still need elections for a 3 person
Polling Commission.
Personally, I think this election is the most urgent of all.
More people seem willing to participate through the Polling Booth than
actually stand for election. So why not just run the organisation "bottom
up" and democratically until such time as we are strong enough to develop
panels to carry out actual tasks?
Just a thought.
-joop-
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