From: Cees De Groot [mailto:cdegroot@gmail.com] Good idea. And I do hope you'll step back into the election team now that your aspirations for a position on the board have been smothered by a last place outcome ;-)
(Grin). I think it got a couple more candidates to stand, on the 'What? *That* idiot??!' principle, so I'm happy.
Quite willing to come back here and be highly opinionated.
Furthermore, my gut feeling is that as long as the election team tries very hard to be transparent and listen to the community, people will not care too much who is a member.
I'm inclined to agree, but it's probably worth asking the question.
I've run "real" elections. The requirement for being a candidate here for, say, the city council is 30 supporters and something like 50 or 100 euro. The requirement for manning the election bureau, however, is IIRC just a Dutch passport and no police record....
Heh. I have an English passport and no police record (other than being a member of Amnesty and being moderately vocal against some of the crazier erosions of human rights in the UK). Does that count? :-)
- Peter
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