We have a nominee list with much of the formality you describe.
Then we have write-ins, with very little formality.
James frowns on such, saying that the UK properly demands more formality in
dealing with the needed exceptions to normal nomination.
I agree that present write-ins are too informal, nominations are too formal
to cover all needs, and UK thoughts might help us with doing something to
fill the gap.
DWK
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:56:22 +0000 (GMT) Juho Laatu wrote:
One approach that is used in practice and
that to some extent avoids the problems of
- "few random votes to random people"
- difficulty to identify to whom the votes actually are meant
- votes to people that do not want to be candidates
- having too many candidates
is to require people to collect an agreed
number of names of supporters (and
candidate's agreement) to get their
candidate on the candidate list.
Juho
--- On Fri, 26/12/08, Dave Ketchum <da...@clarityconnect.com> wrote:
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:55:23 -0000 James Gilmour wrote:
Incidentally, my personal view is that there should be
no provision for "write-ins" at all in public
elections. If I am not
prepared to declare myself as candidate and be
nominated in the same way as all the other candidates, I
cannot see any reason why
anyone should take me seriously. If my
"friends" think I would be the best person to do
the job, they should come and tell me and
persuade me to stand, nominate me, and then campaign
like fury to get me elected.
Worth some thought:
I think "nominate" has been thoroughly defined,
and should not be changed as part of this debate.
Something such as "authorized for write-in" could
be developed:
Approved by candidate BEFORE the election. This would
outlaw some of the present nonsense.
Perhaps James could offer useful thought.
James
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