RE: [ALSC-Forum] Benefits and goals of At-Large involvement

[Oscar A. Robles Garay]

Bruce,
	I think that this won't happen in most countries, but let's say you may have a big number (hundreds) of homeless in you country "eager" to contribute to the "alternate roots" issue, the thing is How do you assure the electorate list is accurate?

	I recall the MAC (membership advisory committee) discuss this issue, and there were some ideas around asking IDs (passport, visa, IRS number, military, educational, etc), the truth is that there is no such documents in some countries and most of them (docs) are easily falsifiable. so, the question again, how do you authenticate an AL member, if you don't like the postal address?

Oscar

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Bruce Young wrote:
>
> Steve Magruder wrote:
>
> >1) At-large member definition: Any human being with an Internet connection,
> >email address and postal address.  There should be verification of
> >uniqueness of every member signed up.  Confirmations to both postal address
> >and email address should be sent (with passcodes) to verify validity of
> both
> >and their connection together.
>
> Let's kill the "postal address" requirement.  A homeless person can easily
> have Internet access and a free, Web-based e-mail account, and may have
> something meaningful to contribute.  But won't have a postal address.
>
> <snap>