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

[Wisdom Donkor]

1. I agree 100% with  Seun and others that there should be a clear
guideline for elections
2. If possible voting should last 24hours. In this case campaign ends the
day voting begins

Cheers,

On Monday, November 21, 2016, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:

> I also think it's good to have such clear guidelines but to the extent
> that it doesn't in any way serve as a way of penalising any of the
> candidates or voters.
>
> Cheers!
> Sent from my LG G4
> Kindly excuse brevity and typos
>
> On 21 Nov 2016 6:31 p.m., "matthew shears" <mshears at cdt.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mshears at cdt.org');>> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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