Baronial Pollings
Dec. 4th, 2014 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurJust got my polling for the Baronial election in the mail. Apparently, for the election to be valid, they require fully filled-in forms (five separate fields) from 50%+ of all paid members.
By postal mail.
And there is no SASE enclosed.
This plan strikes me as coming dangerously close to the "unrealistic" line, given how hard it is to get people to put anything in the mail these days. (I know too many people who find the whole idea of sending postal mail quaint, since they are doing all their bill-paying online.) I still think Kingdom made a very poor choice in arrogating the election process to itself, but sobeit -- there's not a lot we can do about it.
So: if you are a paid member, *please* be sure to fill out and return your ballot, even if you look at the slates and have the entirely reasonable reaction of, "I don't much care -- they'd all do a good job". It looks like we need a serious get-out-the-vote effort if we're to avoid things getting weird and unfortunate. Spread the word...
By postal mail.
And there is no SASE enclosed.
This plan strikes me as coming dangerously close to the "unrealistic" line, given how hard it is to get people to put anything in the mail these days. (I know too many people who find the whole idea of sending postal mail quaint, since they are doing all their bill-paying online.) I still think Kingdom made a very poor choice in arrogating the election process to itself, but sobeit -- there's not a lot we can do about it.
So: if you are a paid member, *please* be sure to fill out and return your ballot, even if you look at the slates and have the entirely reasonable reaction of, "I don't much care -- they'd all do a good job". It looks like we need a serious get-out-the-vote effort if we're to avoid things getting weird and unfortunate. Spread the word...
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Date: 2014-12-04 07:30 pm (UTC)Do we know if the Majesties or the Heirs are going to be the ones making the final call?
You would seriously think this would be done online in this day and age, but then again with the website problems that sprang up this year...
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Date: 2014-12-04 07:32 pm (UTC)1. I trust one of those sets of people more than the other in this instance, for better or worse. One set is local and one is, well, Southern Region.
2. I am not above going across the sidewalk and asking His Majesty to send a personal note to the Carolingia list urging people to get their ballots in.
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Date: 2014-12-04 07:35 pm (UTC)