Carolyn Birden wrote: > > Good questions all, Dave. > About non-members: I'm agin' 'em. Members as they are defined > should vote, period. > About ballot counting: I assume wBAI will hire a third party, > neutral, to deal with the mailing and counting of ballots, and to > actually supervise if not run the election process. Otherwise it > will be more contentious than we can bear. > > About air time for candidates: to be negotiated, but equal time for > all is the principle. And the rules will have to deal with NO air > time for friends of producers, no endorsements by producers, And I suppose we can expect the usual WBAI factional adherence to these rules? > or else > those candidates will be disqualified as candidates, period. Oh, so when I want to get rid of a candidate all I have to do is talk about that person favorably on the air? More powerful than voting. > This is > a big issue - there should be equal access to the air by all. Forums > with many/several candidates at once would be okay, but no one should > be able to buy or wheedle air time directly or indirectly. I look forward to seeing how you prevent factions, especially one in power, from getting around this. -- http://www.glib.com/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/xYTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!' To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewPacifica-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/