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

[James Love]

Vittorio, Yes, I was also thinking of a case where the organizations would
not vote in the @large, but it's members would, and the organizations would
help identify unique individuals who were interested in DNS issues, taking
responsiblity for some of checking to see if they were real unique persons.
In this model, you would accept an organization to assist in registration,
but probably only if you have confidence that the organization was going to
do a decent job of due diligence.  Organizations that have dues or mail
based registration have some advantages in this respect.  Employeers
probably do also.

jamie


----- Original Message -----
From: "Vittorio Bertola" <v.bertola@bertola.eu.org>
To: "James Love" <james.love@cptech.org>
Cc: <DannyYounger@cs.com>; <Bruce@barelyadequate.info>;
<forum@atlargestudy.org>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 4:28 AM
Subject: Re: [ALSC-Forum] How to distract the At-large


>
> 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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