On Wednesday, August 17, 2005 6:12 AM MDT, Sandra Quinn <ohgen(a)alltel.net> wrote:
Our guidelines and elections webpage is linked to on the site for
what
has been done in the project since 1998.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohgenweb/Election-Outcomes.html
I'm trying to understand an apparent contradiction. On this page and on the earlier
page that came from Alan's site
Scioto.org, it says:
"Anyone who is a OHGenWeb County Coordinator, designated volunteer or holds an
'other position' (such as Assistant County Coordinator, State Project Coordinator,
etc.) in Ohio and who is also subscribed to the OHGW list by 11:59 PM ET on the day the
ballots are distributed is eligible to participate. No more than one vote per person even
if involved with more than one county, or project."
This would seem to have come from the April 1998 ballot where "who can vote" was
first voted on <
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/OHGEN/1998-04/0892426853>:
"Any one who is a Ohio county coordinator, volunteer or holds an 'other
position' in Ohio gets a vote (see Ballot item 2 - A) and who is also subscribed to
ohgen-l(a)rootsweb.com by 11:59 PM EDT Sunday April 11th (see ballot item 3 - Yes) No more
than one vote per person."
But the result of this vote, which Patty sent on April 28,
<
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/OHGEN/1998-04/0893803666-01>, was that
designated volunteers would *not* be able to vote.
*** "Each eligible person gets one vote per person. Eligible persons include county
coordinators, county co-coordinators, assistant county and state coordinators, special
projects coordinators and state coordinator. A person must be subscribed to ohgen-l when
the vote is announced to vote."
This was reiterated in the official ballot
<
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/OHGEN/1998-04/0893803666-02> a short time
later. The process by which Patty came to this conclusion was not a transparent vote of
the membership. However, it does seem to be more consistent with the USGenWeb bylaws when
they were subsequently adopted:
"ARTICLE VII. ELECTION PROCEDURES
Section 6. All members of The USGenWeb Project, excluding Look-Up Volunteers and
Transcribers, shall be eligible to vote."
So can anyone find a ballot somewhere where we added back in "designated
volunteer" to the list of voters? If not, then I would suggest that the *** statement
above is the official description of the voting pool, until such time as we vote for
something different.
I also suggest that we let this subject rest for now. We clearly need to agree on
procedure before we go anywhere else.
I was in Marietta (Washington county)over the weekend and took a
photo
of a boat shoving empty barges on the Ohio River just outside of town
which is the photo on the page.
Nice pic. A few years ago I was visiting the cemetery in southern Gallia County where my
great-great-great grandparents John and Mary Cranston are buried. On a high, lonely
hilltop ten miles from the River, and you could still hear the barge horns. That sound was
also described by their granddaughter (b. 1873) to her son, who related it to me. It
really gives you a sense of history.
Scott
Guernsey Cownty