Dear Mr. Swafford,
I am the alternate Election Committee member for the Southeast/Mid-Atlantic
Region. Although I appreciate the appointment, I must now ask you to please
allow me to withdraw from this position. When I volunteered, I had hoped to
assist, in any way possible, with the election process. However, in light of
the creation of arbitrary (and in my opinion, improper) cut off dates for
voting eligibility for new CC's, contriversy as to the right for special
project members and assistant CC's to vote, etc. I do not feel that I can be
associated with the EC in any way. I will express my displeasure with the
state of affairs by casting my vote. What ever happened to genealogists
helping genealogists? Wasn't that supposed to be what this was all about.
My eight year old daughter has a habit of reading emails over my shoulder
sometimes....she asked me the other night, "why do they all hate each other
so much"? That's all I got to say about that.