JR>NP>This is your idea of a good system?  A system that works?  A
JR>success?
JR>Okay, What's you solution to this "problem"?
Can't I just stick with the easy stuff and point my finger instead? 
Lets see.
For one I'd change the practice of only allowing certain types of
members to vote.  Make it open to all members.
Following that change, I'd run much more information about the election,
the subject (if any) to vote on, and the people running.  I'd have that
in the magazines.  Not just one issue, but several.  For several months
I'd be running bios and such of all the candidates, at the same time in
each issue.
I'd also have the ballot be in the magazine come election time.  That
way it has the best chance of getting seen and looked at.  And maybe
even cast.
I'd also completely eliminate the money grubbing part of the ballot.
Having it a clean, "normal" looking ballot, without any extraneous junk
with it, attached to it, or even near it.
I'd eliminate the requirement for petition or connection from
nomination.  Replacing it with an open nomination where any member can
nominate themselves.  The two strings I'd attach to keep dead wood out
would be a nominal entry fee and some sort of effectiveness clause.  The
entry fee would only have to be something like $10 to keep most people
from wasting other folks time.  The effectiveness clause would be
something like what is used in incorporated groups.  Where if the
Secretary fails to perform their duties the board can remove them, and
replace them with either someone they chose, or hold an election, closed
or open.
And as another possible technique I might eliminate the voting
completely.  I don't vote for leadership in any other lobbying
organization I'm a member of, and those organizations don't seem to have
the leadership and followership problems the NRA has.
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