Re: [ga] withdrawal of candidacy

["Sotiropoulos" <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

What to do?!?!

Why... we go on with the election of course!

Damn pity Jon Weinberg dropped out, but there's no need to stall the
election... unless certain parties are apprehensive about... what, I wonder?

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
        Hermes Network, Inc.




----- Original Message -----
From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] withdrawal of candidacy


> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:26:58AM -0700, Bret Fausett wrote:
> > Kent Crispin wrote:
> > >> Luckily, the instant-runoff voting system will allow any votes that
people
> > >> may have cast for me to be redistributed to other candidates.
> > >
> > > The question of what to do when a candidate withdraws in the midst of
> > > an election is a matter of policy, not mechanism.
> >
> > In most jurisdictions in the United States, as an example, the practice
is
> > to inform the voters of the withdrawal but allow the election to proceed
as
> > planned under the current ballot. (Of course, this practice has led to
at
> > least one dead man being elected to a high office. :-)
>
> Well, none of the candidates are dead, that I know of.  But we have no
> established practice here, and it seems pretty clear that the NC will
> have to make a determination.  Well, I suppose the GA could vote on
> what to do...
>
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> kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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