Theos-Talk Archives (November 2008 Message tt00268)

Including the name of the nominators in the ballot is an innovation that has
been successfully used in the  American Section elections.

The nominator's names help to subtly influence newbees who know perhaps next
to nothing about any of the candidates in election, thus well known past
leaders' names can influence the outcome of the elections. We do not know
how many votes this feature affected in the last International Election.

MKR



On 11/14/08, sampsakuukasjarvi <sampsakuukasjarvi@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   Sorry Daniel, but your version is old.
>
> Anton's point was to show the UPDATED international rules of the TS
> (Adyar). You Daniel gave us the old rules that have been on the net
> already earlier.
>
> For the General Council meeting at Adyar in the end of 2006, John
> Algeo proposed at least ONE CHANGE which went through and which
> doesn't exist in the version posted by Daniel. People have talked
> about this change on Theos-Talk.
>
> The old version goes:
>
> "10. Election of President
>
> "(e) The Secretary shall then immediately communicate ? the voting
> list together with biographical data of the candidates in accordance
> with Appendix A to these Rules?"
>
> But the NEW version goes:
>
> "(e) The Secretary shall then immediately communicate ? the voting
> list together with THE NAMES OF THE NOMINATORS OF THE REPECTIVE
> CANDIDATES AND biographical data of the candidates in accordance with
> Appendix A to these Rules?"
>
> Sampsa
>
> 
>


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