[Chapter-delegates] Elections, Polls, Electorate

[Ricardo Holmquist]

Dear Olivier,
In our chapter we do only acept the members whose address are in the
country, or the citizens of the country living abroad. This rules are in
our statutes.

Yes we do have the problem with the ISOC membership, since ISOC "only"
requires a valid email address, maybe this was useful 20 years ago, with
very few free email systems, nowadays, you might enter with 10 different
emails, most chapters do not charge, global ISOC do not charge. I do expect
that someday ISOC changes that, and requires more info, like country,
address (at least a city), full name, clearly indicate that it must be a
natural person, not a company (and if you are a company enter as a
company).

ISOC has now like 100.000 members, and by the efforts of chapters and
global ISOC is recognized worlwide, so lets get serious about our
membership, some days we need to look back and really now who are we
representing when we speak as organized civil society.

Excellent idea the poll previous to the elections!.

Regards

Ricardo Holmquist

On Tuesday, 15 March 2016, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> when it comes to the forthcoming elections, our chapter has in the past
> conducted straw polls of our "members" to give our leadership team a
> better idea of the candidate the Chapter should support.
>
> We do not charge fees and have over 3000 "members" both in the UK and
> abroad. I use the quotation mark because the membership is listed on the
> Internet Society AMS system, as people who are interested in the UK
> Chapter's activities.
>
> Recently the question arose in our chapter as to who were our Chapter's
> electorate. Is it the 3000+ names listed in the AMS system? Some might
> say that it is not, since these names are unverified. Half of these
> names are based abroad. So, if your chapter is without paid members, how
> do you define your Chapter's electorate?
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
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