Since I can't find the current Bylaws on the Web site, I can't answer these questions:
1) What is the required method of distributing election/voting information to the members? I can't imagine that having the information available on the Web is sufficient (or even advisable). There are still people out there who don't access the Web. Was Web access made a mandatory condition for joining USAT?
2) How can the members vote on *anything* other than what was on the written ballot that was distributed to (some of) the members? If that information was flawed, incorrect, incomplete or outdated, then the whole election/voting is fatally defective, and should be started over.
As many people have pointed out, a link on a Web page is sorely lacking in permanence. Any Web admin worth his salt can change file information to make it appear that a particular document was created/posted at any time desired, thus removing any realistic mechanism for validating the content. Yes, someone might have downloaded the content, and then you have a conflict over who is telling the truth. I submit that whatever is on the Web site is utterly irrelevant.
This whole thing stinketh.
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"Go yell at an M&M"
1) What is the required method of distributing election/voting information to the members? I can't imagine that having the information available on the Web is sufficient (or even advisable). There are still people out there who don't access the Web. Was Web access made a mandatory condition for joining USAT?
2) How can the members vote on *anything* other than what was on the written ballot that was distributed to (some of) the members? If that information was flawed, incorrect, incomplete or outdated, then the whole election/voting is fatally defective, and should be started over.
As many people have pointed out, a link on a Web page is sorely lacking in permanence. Any Web admin worth his salt can change file information to make it appear that a particular document was created/posted at any time desired, thus removing any realistic mechanism for validating the content. Yes, someone might have downloaded the content, and then you have a conflict over who is telling the truth. I submit that whatever is on the Web site is utterly irrelevant.
This whole thing stinketh.
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"Go yell at an M&M"