[NCUC-DISCUSS] [Important] NCUC Bylaws Final Version

[matthew shears]

I agree with the suggestion by Nadira - and should as Tapani says be 
given serious consideration by the new EC.


On 21/11/2016 15:59, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 03:43:43PM +0200, Nadira Alaraj (nadira.araj at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> Usually and in any voting process, the support or self promotion of
>> candidates stops before the distribution of the ballots.
> That is not by any means universal. In particular when voting is
> conducted by mail or otherwise takes a long time, notably also during
> postal or other advance voting in most elections I know of,
> campaigning keeps going on all the way until voting stops.
>
> Whether or not that is a good thing is another question, and we might
> well decide that campaigning should stop after voting starts in NCUC
> elections. But so far we haven't had such a rule and it is obviously
> too late to make one for this election.
>
> But good that you brought it up, the new EC would be well advised
> to consider it and make the rules clear before next election.
>

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Matthew Shears
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