Re: [ALSC-Forum] How to distract the At-large

[Vittorio Bertola]

On Sat, 11 May 2002 07:55:12 -0400, you wrote:

>
>I would like to follow up with Danny's point.  Suppose we accepted
>"organizations" in the at large, and one important funciton was to manage
>their internal voter registration verification, and provide a mail verified
>residential address, plus an email address.  We could reject organizations
>was committed fraud.  If someone was a member of more than one group (most
>of us are), the address could be used to eliminate dups.  This would be a
>distributed approach to some of the at large functions.

This is more or less what I have in mind too. The only issue is how to
build a representation mechanism on that - you could say that each
organization has one representative, but then you would have tons of
nonexisting organizations created for the purpose of winning a seat,
or each organization has a number of votes proportional to its
members, which would push for fake registrations and registration
rushes.
So the answer in my opinion is that organization should bring
individuals, and then the individuals should vote. If the organization
actually involves a relevant number of individuals, it will be able to
ask them to vote for the candidate it supports.
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Vittorio Bertola     <vb@vitaminic.net>    Ph. +39 011 23381220
Vitaminic [The Music Evolution] - Vice President for Technology

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