I don't see it as a logistical nightmare. Many organizations handle their elections that way. Anyone running for board would more than likely be a member anyway, and even then, you can have room for a write-in candidate. Member verification for voting purposes would be easy. If you're there for the annual meeting, that's when you'd pay your dues, anyway. If you don't submit your membership form and dues at the meeting, you don't receive a ballot. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Michael Bashour
2011/5/9 Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com:
2011/5/9 Nicholas Bashour nicholasbashour@gmail.com
I suggested September because that's when our proposed annual meeting is. Anyone who comes to that meeting and pays his/her dues then would be eligible to vote. Dues could be accepted at $10 through March and at $5 through the start of the next annual meeting.
Is the intent to allow someone to sign up as a member *at* the annual meeting, then? That would be a logistics nightmare if we intend to use paper ballots for the election; with the membership not known in advance, there would be no way to prepare the ballots prior to the meeting. Kirill _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc