Fw: [chapter-delegates] One Member One Vote

[Franck Martin]

Exactly and so far the ISOC has been taken its individual membership for 
a ride, by not giving them all, power to vote directly for representatives.

Cheers

Carlos Vera Q wrote:

> It's not a technical problem at all. Technically is a simple (very 
> simple) thing. It's a political thing a power position.
>
> Carlos Vera
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard StClair" <stclair at niue.nu>
> To: <chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:19 PM
> Subject: [chapter-delegates] One Member One Vote
>
>
>>>> 1. One Member One Vote
>>>
>>>
>>> This is a difficult to achieve, even if we did not have individual 
>>> members.  Consider that individual members are permitted to join 
>>> more than one Chapter.  In fact, there is no limit to the number of 
>>> Chapters a member can join.  Thus, a member could, in principle, 
>>> vote in many Chapters.
>>
>>
>> I don't think it would be difficult to run a simple database of 
>> ISOC's members. That should exist somewhere anyway or you don't have 
>> any idea who the members are, how many there are or where they are.
>>
>> It should be up to chapters to determine their local members, and 
>> then forward them regularly by spreadsheet or some means to ISOC Hq. 
>> Simple.
>>
>> Then it's a simple matter to find a web interface (or some similar 
>> technology) to allow each one of them to vote. There are probably 
>> chapters around with the skills and resources to donate such services 
>> whenever there needs to be a vote. It's not like it's gonna be needed 
>> every week. ;-)
>>
>> I think this concept that this is too hard to do, or it's too 
>> complex, or too expensive, is simply not correct.
>>
>> It IS a doable thing, and right now it is at the heart of the anger 
>> in the chapter community right now.
>>
>> It doesn't matter [at this point] how things were before. What 
>> matters now is that chapters want one vote per member....and that 
>> means all members not just the paying ones.
>>
>> Fix that, or you have a real problem on your hands that is not going 
>> to go away.
>>
>>
>>>> 2. Every member has a Vote
>>>
>>>
>>> This is true today.
>>
>>
>> Huh? I can't help but think this conflicts with your statement 1.
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Richard St Clair,
>> Co-Founder & Internet Evangelist,
>> Internet Users Society Niue, APTLD Board Member
>> --------------------------------------------
>> stclair at niue.nu www.niue.nu Fax 683-4624
>> Niue Island, South Pacific 169 West 19 South
>> --------------------------------------------
>> IT Policy: "Leave the geeks alone and everything will be fine".
>>
>>
>>

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