srw
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Members with more than one vote
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Oct 20 04:14 UTC 1996 |
I would like to discuss the question of whether individual members
should be limited to one vote in Grex elections. It is my opinion that a
single individual should not be able to vote more than once, even if
that person buys two memberships. In fact I think it should not be
possible for an individual to have two memberships. This may be spelled
out by either State Law, or our bylaws, but I am not sure. To me this is
a basic principle (1 person-1 vote) that I believe Grex adheres to, but
I am not sure of the details.
A related question is whether an organization can have a membership in
Grex, or only individuals. I do not remember us ever establishing a
policy on this question, but we may have done so. I am hoping that
someone can shed light on this. I do not believe we have a second type
of membership for organizations. I think this means that organizations
cannot really become members, only individuals, but again I do not know
if this is established.
These two issues could be related. If a person had an individual
membership, but also exerted some control over an organization that was
also a member of Grex, then if both could vote, this person would have
more control over Grex's policies and directors than anyone else on
Grex. This would violate the 1 person-1 vote principle, that I believe
Grex adheres to.
Perhaps this is all a non-issue, but I need to understand why.
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tsty
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response 1 of 186:
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Oct 20 06:17 UTC 1996 |
slate? individual memership and elected representative of an organization
which also has a membership?
businesses are consdiered "persons" for all intents and purposes.
maybe a slate of two. the business would tell their representative how
to vote for the business/organization, and that same individual would,
with a personal membership, vote independently. i cna see this if we
had organizational/business memberships.
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