On Fri, June 29, 2007 03:19, the contactbox wrote:
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But yes, without real ID entering the picture somewhere, or only permitting voting in person, it's hard to avoid that loophole in any voting body.
Good comments both. But we do need to find an answer to this one somehow.
The 'answer' to this one is, in fact, already extant.
As a registered Company we have obligations under law and also as part of the responsibilities under the 'rules' of the Company (The Memorandum and the Articles of Association).
1. The latter prohibit any other company (ie non-human individual) from having more than a single vote.
2. Because one cannot operate a company when you don't know who might be pulling any strings or whether they are trying to pull two strings at once then *real name and address* will remain an absolute requirement in order to apply for membership of the Company. We do not propose to permit the possibility of such a loophole.
3. People who wish to remain anonymous will be welcome as Chapter members but will not be able to join the Company, for the reasons given above.
Alison Wheeler
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