2009/1/24 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/1/24 James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com:
My past experience as a returning officer, as a candidate, and as a candidate's agent in elections suggests that allowing candidates or potential candidates a running commentary of candidates standing negatively influences the fairness of an electoral process - and this is particularly true when only a subset of potential candidates is getting this information.
I don't think you can keep that kind of information from the board. The board are responsible for holding the AGM and running the election correctly, they need to know what is going on.
Then why appoint a Teller or Tellers independent of the Board?