Salute!
davidguegan wrote:
Members had until the last day of August if I remember to nominate someone then we were supposed to vote.
Rule 3.3.8 on Election of President states:
In the event that there is only 1 nominee at close of the nomination period, that person wins the election without a vote. davidguegan wrote:
we can have a more straight forward system and certainly no doubts about what happened.
If I understand you correctly good sir, you are referring to the fact that the nominations made for President currently are presented solely to the Cabinet, and not made public.
I agree that this is something worth considering.
A Democracy is best served when most open and public.
What is the reason that only the Cabinet receive these nominations?
An easy (seemingly to me) alternative is to create a thread at the top of the forums where these nominations may be cast.
As for whether or not a candidate
must be nominated by another member as is the present process, or if a member can nominate himself, I can go either way on it.
Perhaps the reason for having another member cast the nomination for the candidate is to prevent frivolous campaigns - if someone else is making the nomination for you it proves you at least do not stand all alone.
The
campaigning for the job would have occured now if there had been more than one candidate presented, which apparently there was not.
Regards,
NWC
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