Hello everyone,
After waiting in vain for news that problems with the elections had been
resolved, I got fed up and sent a note to the SC list asking why the
concerns of State Coordinators had not been addressed. I also politely
demanded a response. Other SCs agreed with me. A couple of Board members
said they were also left out of the loop this time around. It looks like
its as good as its going to get this time. Go ahead and vote if you haven't
already. If you have problems voting contact me immediately. A web page
appears confirming your vote. It may be a good idea to save the page.
The following was in response to my email to the SC list:
From: "Roger Swafford" <sagitta56(a)earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:40:23 -0400
Situation Report to the members;
The EC began operations over the Memorial Day holiday. Almost immediately
discussion revolved around adopting a primary and an alternate means of
conducting the elections.
The EC was advised on 5/28/00 that Rootsweb would not be supporting the
elections process this year.
Numerous web based voting sites were investigated including Votebot,
however, according to their own information pages their site is not a
substitute for elections software or other procedures. Discussions then
covered either creating and sending ballots via email or using an online
form. When a volunteer to create online forms (ballots) with server was
obtained
and proposed, the EC accepted by unanimous consent.
The present system is not perfect, there have been mistakes which were
corrected
when discovered.
The voter ID's were automatically generated by computer software after all
voter lists had been either imported or hand-keyed. There are some errors,
some caused by the use of multiple addresses and/or last names, shortened
first names, some due to typos. Thus far, members have been very cooperative
in correcting these
errors. Once a master list was created it was then split for the regional
races and the EC teams given a regional list with addresses and voter #'s.
Initially the NC ballot with amendments was only being sent to one person to
be validated against the server log. Two EC members volunteered to assist by
taking on even more work so now all ballots are sent to three persons for
verification
and tabulation.
As Chairman, I have recommended that all voter ID's with votes be listed on
a web site as part of an EC final report, the due date for which is yet to
be determined, hopefully not later than 30 August.
Roger Swafford
EC Chairman
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Elaine Johnson mailto:elaine@ida.net
IDGenWeb Coordinator
http://www.rootsweb.com/~idgenweb/
Mirror site at
http://www.rootsquest.com/~idaho/index.htm