I would like an explanation of the voting process from the EC including whether or not there is anonymity regarding a person's vote before commenting. Holly Timm At 07:12 AM 6/30/00 -0400, you wrote: >After the announcement by the Elections Committee Chair that the ballots >would be counted manually, I contacted VoteBot (www.vot.bot.com), a >highly-reputable organization with no ties to the Internet genealogical >community. > >It took some sweet-talking, but they finally agreed to set up a custom >electronic voting booth for up to 3,000 voters - for FREE - solely >because >we are a nonprofit. I have been working with the manager of the site all >day setting this up, and ask that the Election Committee, Board and >I know you have all seen this message, but thought I would cut and paste >it into this message just so everyone would understand what I was >talking about. What do we think of this option for the Elections? It >is kind of late in the game to be changing anything the EC has set up, >but it does sound like a great system of running voting process. > >Pam > >Membership give this option your most serious consideration. > >Their procedures are totally confidential, using password-protected >email >and the manager is ready to go when we are: All that needs to be done is >set up the ballots for the regions and special projects and enter the >emails for voting privileges. > >This would be a truly neutral "hands-off" process with no possible >question >of vote-tampering, and I urge all concerned to please accept this >solution >in the spirit in which it is offered. > >Lynn >Feel free to forward this to any appropriate list, as long as it is in >its >entirety!