NP>EP>        Anyone on the ballot has either gathered enough signatures on
NP>EP>        a petition, or is known personally by the Nominating
NP>EP>        Committee. That helps ensure a "vetting process" is working.
NP>EP>        As to whether the low voting percentages indicate the system
NP>EP>        is broken, or working just fine, is open to interpretation.
NP>EP>        Suggestions? Ernie P.
NP>That's a "voting process"?
        No, that's a "vetting process". Public education is getting
        worse and worse. EP
NP>That's not voting, that's the good ole boy system.  You've got to know
NP>the right people, and then you're in.  Gathering petition signatures is
NP>a joke with a nation wide mail order lobbying organization like the NRA.
NP>Getting known personally by the Nominating Committee (yet _another_
NP>closed door secret society) shouldn't be grounds for nomination for
NP>anything, other then schmoozer.  Definately *not* nomination for
NP>president of the organization.
NP>This is your idea of a good system?  A system that works?  A success?
NP>---
        Yep. It was working just fine before you were born and will
        work just fine long after you're gone. Of course, you're welcome
        to come change it. You and 50,000 others who think like you do;
        and you're a shoo-in for the board. See you at the first board
        meeting in 1997? Ernie P.
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