[Chapter-delegates] Board Election

[Peter Koch]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:35:27PM -0500, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:

> Vint's question does beg an answer from you. You may decide not to
> interfere with the ongoing election process and answer him and Desiree in
> private, then make your answer public when the polling closes. I don't
> think you have a lot more choice.

on my calendar it's the 24th today. That is 23 days past the first and one day left
into the voting deadline.  To the latter: I, for one, take the liberty to exploit the
full extent of the deadline the election committee came up with.  I am also
extremely sensitive to "public pressure", especially when it comes to elections.
That links to the former: It truly puzzles me to see a request to a chapter
to justify their vote (to other chapters), even if that is an abstention.
There are several reasons to abstain and sometimes even a qualified abstention
might have more value than a ballot cast under "pressure".  I am pretty sure that several
people on this list who are, sadly, much more qualified from personal experience
than myself, would be able to share some depressing insight. Time to get a globe.

-Peter