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"A very crafty way of attempting to skew the results in favor of this BS proposal by splitting the opposition. "
Don I think your getting paranoid. I voted for ammendment B I think it more fair to both the smaller districts and still gives some pwoer to the larger districts.
A straight membership vote could actually give total control to any issues they wanted to contorl. That is why an electorial type vote is done. Remeber we actually have that now except the numeber is 200 members.
No "paranoia" at all rather a simple dose of reality. Entertain this possible scenario for a moment if amendment A passes-
Something comes up for a vote & the voting goes something like this-
district 2 has a total of say 35 people vote for - they get 6 votes by their director
district 4 has 20 people vote for- they get 4 votes
district 5 has 20 people vote for- they get 4 votes
district 1,3,6,7,12,13 & 14 have a 50% voter turn out against a proposal. That's basically 150 people. You have a 2 to 1 margin by popular vote against & they still lose because they will only have a total of 11 votes. Is this likely? Who's to say. Is it possible? You're **** right it is & it's just not fair if it happens. I simply cannot go along with potentially putting the control of the ENTIRE organization in the hands of just 3 districts or potentially even just 3 people. :blink:
I truly wish we had a better turn out when we vote but we don't. The problem here is this makes it worse, not better. Not to mention that it is entirely possible that the directors of 2,4 & 5 could vote the way they THINK it should be regardless of what the members voted. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they would, but they could, and there is nothing in place to prevent this. And don't think for one minute that a director has never voted his way because he felt he knew better because it has happened in the past.
I want things to be fair for ALL members regardless of which district they reside in & this is NOT the way to do it. <_<
I will also vote for amendment B & STRONGLY urge everyone who does not like amendment A to do exactly the same. I agree with Bill on one vote per hundred is the best choice for now since we have to choose.
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