RE: [atlarge-discuss] The Rights and Responsibilities of Voting...

[<bruce@barelyadequate.info>]

This is a general response to this thread:

Richard, Walter and several others seem to think that, because the
membership has not submitted nominees that meet *their* personal idea of
adequacy, that the election must needs be suspended or cancelled.  Sorry
guys, but the membership chose who they chose.  Just because you don't
recognize all the names doesn't invalidate them.  In fact, the very fact
that we do have a large number of new faces on the candidates' list is as
much an indightment of the old guard as it is an indoresement of alternative
voices.  I we are truely to be a DEMOCRACY, we must respect the members'
choices, and submit them to the membership for a vote, and back up their
chosen leaders.

I also notice that those that claim a language other than English as their
mother tongue seem to be getting the bulk of the grief.  Why is that?  Is
there some underlying prejudice at work here?

As for cancelling the election: several months ago, a faction of the
membership that is active in our e-mail and/or Web forums -- which I again
must point out make up only a small percentage of our actual membership!  --
clamored for an election after this organization was thrown into anarchy by
the dissertion of our Panel Chair into the hands of the enemy, and the
abandonment of their responsibility by the majority of our remaining Panel
members.  The aternative to continuing with elections is to descend back
into the anarchy that existed at that time.  I for one don't want to see
this organization fail merely because a handful of disgruntled old-timers
are unhappy with the choices the other 800+ members made!


Bruce Young
Portland, Oregon
bruce@barelyadequate.info
http://www.barelyadequate.info
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