<VV> elections, was: Member Survey

[Tony Underwood]

At 06:11 PM 7/26/2009, airvair at earthlink.net wrote:
>Same problem in any election. Not to get political, but I feel ALL
>elections should have a "none of the above" option. Think of it. If CORSA
>elections had that option, then we wouldn't have the situation we just had,
>where there WAS no "real" choice. Why bother even voting, if even if just
>ONE vote will elect the "candidate?" A "none of the above" option might
>just encourage more than 40 votes per candidate. It's why I didn't bother
>to vote in this year's (so called) election for the board. Uncontested
>elections are a waste of time, postage, etc.





I kinda agree...    I looked at the ballots and noticed that 
positions uncontested kinda insure a shoe-in for the one 
candidate.    A vote was kinda moot.


I *have* voted before, many times, when a slot was indeed contested 
and there was a choice.     Odd, that after the list/membership was 
chastised for not bothering to vote, I almost felt kinda 
irresponsible for not having voted.    I never fail to vote in 
regional, local, and general elections when it involves government 
etc. and I felt a bit of a slacker until I remembered the same things 
Mark brought up here.


After all, we knew who was gonna get the slot...   Here's hoping that 
next time some responsible people will step up and provide some 
additional choices.



Now:    That last comment is NOT an indictment of the current board 
members in any way.   It's a comment intended to stir some thought 
about having more people getting involved in CORSA politics.





tony..