Re: Election results

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:19:18AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 07-Aug-07, 10:14 (CDT), "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
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> > MJ Ray wrote:
> > > Neil McGovern <neilm(at)spi-inc(dot)org> wrote:
> > >> I've done a few others (Borda, Borda Elimination, Minmax, Nanson, Ranked
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> > > Does that mean you suspect the turn-out was low because there are too
> > > many voters and SPI will try to remove/reclassify voting members to
> > > improve the turn-out proportion?
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> > I think it means that we have a lot of contributing members who don't
> > contribute and thus we will likely remove their contributing status.
>
> So the only way to contribute is to vote for SPI board members? :-)
>
> Actually, I'll use this opportunity to ask a question: how does one
> resign from SPI? There's no info on the website(s) that I could find.
> And for the record, this has nothing to do with Joshua's comment; I
> realized during the lengthy pre-election discussions that I had no
> reason to remain a member.
>

"Members wishing to leave the organization may do so at any time by
notifying the membership committee in writing of their desire for the
membership to be terminated."

aka: mail the membership committee :)

Neil
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Neil McGovern
Secretary, Software in the Public Interest, Inc.