Originally Posted by Randy Petersen
For all those seeking a single place to learn the results of this years TalkBoard elections, this is it.
The winners in this years TalkBoard elections for the five positions open for the 2005/2006 year have been duly elected....
Welcome back ScottC to another term on the TalkBoard. For doc and bhatnasx: thank you both for your contributions to the dialog in this years elections and for the "new faces" among our candidates. I think on behalf of our members we certainly would welcome you and all the others back next year when we have 4 additional seats to fill.
A Note: by action of the TalkBoard, doc is now the first member in line to fill a vacant seat should any current member of the Board be unable to fulfill his elected term, followed by bhatnasx. Again a hearty congrats to all....
Randy, I'm confused....
You note that there were five positions open for the current term.
There were four positions open in last year's election for the term that began then.
Can you clarify why the runners-up for
this year's term are first in line to fill
any spot, no matter what the actual term for which the holder was elected?
That seems to me an unusual way to proceed (and would seem to undercut the both whole notion of "terms" and the will of the electorate for a
particular term if the runner up candidate for a given term is in fact ex post facto no longer the runner up slated to move into
that unexpired term.) It would seem to me that the runner-up for the election for the term beginning in 2004 would be the next choice of the voters who voted for the candidates for
that term.
Thanks for any light you can shed.