election vote

[Ken Thompson III]

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ken Thompson III 
  To: tony at radiosouthrc.com 
  Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 10:47 AM
  Subject: Re: election vote


  This sounds like the right move, to avoid a possible controversy, however I for one am disheartened that this maneuver is necessary.
  Having only been a member of the NSRCA for one year I guess that the heavily political scene has escaped my notice.  I knew about the AMA's politics, but not realizing that it also followed our group was just plain ignorance on my part.
  As for myself, I'm just here for the chance to become a better pilot and to have as much fun as possible, with my limited skills.

  Ken Thompson
  D4 Sportsman, again
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: tony at radiosouthrc.com 
    To: Discussion at Nsrca.Org 
    Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 10:11 AM
    Subject: election vote


    Members:

    In response to the e-mail that Frank sent to the membership, I feel that I need to clarify my position.  First, I was unaware that AMA counted the ballots in a prior election.  Somehow, I didn't get this info.  Second, I take offence to the notion that I am in complete violation of the rules.  If the person who wrote the by-laws would have put "SHALL" instead of "SHOULD", this would not have given me the option.  I read that as something that we might need to do, but not an absolute requirement.  It is apparent that this needs to be re-written.   

    However, I don't see AMA counting the votes as any "fairer" that NSRCA doing it.  I have now heard about ballots that were not counted when AMA did it the last time.  I have no way of knowing if this is true or not, but just the rumor that this might have happened makes me think we would be much better off to have a completely separate organization that has nothing to do with model airplanes to count the votes.  AMA sends it's election ballots to an independent accounting firm for this, and that is what I think we should do as well.  This way, there is no connection between NSRCA and the tabulators.  

    So, that is the direction I am going to go with this.  I am checking into an accounting firm that will handle this and go that way.

    I have also directed the NSRCA Secretary to forward the ballot information to our new publisher and they will handle the printing and mailing of the ballot so that the NSRCA officers will be out of this loop as well.  


    Tony Stillman
    Radio South
    3702 N. Pace Blvd.
    Pensacola, FL 32505
    1-800-962-7802
    www.radiosouthrc.com
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