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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