[19513] in APO-L
Re: Voting Delegates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Ham)
Tue Oct 27 05:18:51 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:09:32 +1100
Reply-To: David Ham <david.a.ham@STUDENT.ANU.EDU.AU>
From: David Ham <david.a.ham@STUDENT.ANU.EDU.AU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
jennifer ann o'leary wrote:
>
> Alpha Alpha elects both delegates from the active body. nominations are
> held at one meeting and at the next the people that are nominated give
> speeches then everyone votes - it's fairly simple
> lfs
> jen o'leary
> one of the delegates
> uiuc
>
Just as a matter of interest how do APO groups elect people for such
functions. Do you operate by first past the post, optional or compulsory
preferential, multiple vote or some other system? Do you use PR in
elections for multiple positions (like the one above) and if so which
form, D'Hont, Hare-Clark or another?
I suspect this is probably not an issue for most chapters - paranoia
about voting systems seem to be an Australian perculiarity (this is,
after all, the country that invented the secret ballot, preferential
voting and compulsory voting for federal and state elections).
I guess this illustrates that, here at least, there are undergrads
(quite a few actually) who are interested in the rules and procedures by
which student organisations work. Admittedly most of those interested
are law students and law is not an undergrad degree in the US.
--
David Ham
Student of Maths and Law, 31 Bambridge Street
The Australian National University Weetangera
Canberra, Australia ACT 2614
Australia
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
