[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Election 2013

[avri doria]

That's easy, you call for nominations and start the process anew.


avri

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From: Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> 
Date: 11/09/2013  10:05  (GMT-08:00) 
To: ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org 
Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Election 2013 
 
Avri:
Just FYI, we had a NOTA (none of the above) option on several of our early elections. 
I was always a supporter of NOTA, too. If you do have a NOTA, then you just have to have a procedure for deciding what happens when "nobody" wins ;-)

--MM

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Sent: Saturday, November 9, 2013 10:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Election 2013


On 9 Nov 2013, at 06:41, Edward Morris wrote:

> We need more people, we need more help and, to our new members,  we need you. Please don't let anyone suggest too much enthusiasm, for me or anything else in the NCUC,  is a bad thing. We need all we can get.
> 


hi,

Could not agree more.

And just like I support endorsements and +1s I support nominations.  

As people might remember, I have long argued that no election should ever have just one candidate.    And I have made a pain in the keister of myself in multiple fora by trying to insist that a None of the Above (NOA) be a candidate in any election where there was just one choice - not that I have succeeded very often in that Quixotic quest.   Now that is not the policy in NCUC as far as I know - so I am not arguing for that now, but may someday when the EC gets around to updating the NCUC out of date charter - but that is yet another bicker.  since we dont have NOA, we need candidates. lots and lots of candidates.


And having said, and with no offense to any candidate we have, I think they are all great people - many of whom have contributed much to the NCUC over the years - we need more candidates.  We need more people to nominate, we need more people to self-nomnate, we need more people to second, and we need many more +1s.

I am not the greatest believer in representative democracy because i think most elective processes are flawed (and i prefer participatory democracy that build on the notions of representativeness).  Well if we just have one candidate per office and no NOA, we will have a flawed process

Lets have an exciting election with lots of choice.  Nominate people. In fact i encourage nominees to nominate/second opponents.  Nominate yourselves.  Twist arms, get people to agree to run.  The worst that can happen is that you get elected and have to do the work for a year.

So people, nominate someone.

avri


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