On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Al Hopper <al at logical-approach.com> wrote:
> > But the election window is soooo long - that does not make sense to me. > Where is this "date of record" defined in the constitution? Old > constitution or new constitution? > > The old/current constitution says: *5.7. Fixing Record Date.* For the purpose of determining Members entitled to notice of, or to vote at, any meeting of members or any adjournment thereof, entitled to consent to action in writing without a meeting, or entitled to exercise any other rights of Members, the OGB may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the OGB, and which record date shall not be more than 60 nor less than 10 days before the date of such meeting. If no record date is fixed by the OGB, the record date shall be the date 10 days before the date of such meeting or exercise of such rights. Nothing here disenfranchises anyone who is active in the community. The set of 50 people we are talking about here are not in danger of being disenfranchised. All that we are trying to do is define (before the voting starts) what the thresholds will be for quorum, plurality and majority so that we can have a valid election, determine if the proposed constitution is adopted and who will be on the next OGB. Making up the numbers AFTER the votes have been recorded is much more likely to smell like voting fraud ... because that's exactly what it would be. -John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20100225/5ae50048/attachment.html>
