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RE: [RC] AERC voting ballots - heidi

While this may not be a presidential election, taking the election process for granted is a serious thing even in "small" elections.  While your husband may not care if you vote his ballot (mine does not care, either--I have his permission to do so), there is no way that the people who count the ballots can know that.  When they see multiple ballots in one envelope, they see a potential for fraud, even if there was none. 
 
I'm with Susan on this.  I'd be mad as all get-out if someone presumed to make my choices, unless I had given them express permission to do so.  (That's what my husband does--he is out of the country during the balloting time-frame, and he says that I know the people and he doesn't, so he would ask me who to vote for anyway.  Still, I get his consent to do it and ask for his input, because it is HIS ballot!)  Even given his permission, I still send them in separate envelopes, because one is his and one is mine.
 
I was concerned as well when I read the post in which a parent had just automatically voted the junior's ballot without asking--sometimes kids do have some pretty strong reasons why they would or would not vote for somebody!  You don't know unless you ask.
 
Meanwhile, rest assured that the BoD is discussing this issue.
 
Heidi
 
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [RC] AERC voting ballots
From: Cindy Collins <c_collins@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, November 24, 2008 12:42 pm
To: NdurN@xxxxxxx
Cc: Ridecamp Ridecamp <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi, Susan.  Guess we're all different.  I'm sure that Angie's girls KNEW what she was doing and were glad to have her make an educated selection.  This is not a presidential election :)  If I handed the ballot to my husband, he would either throw it in the trash or ask me to fill it out.  He is well aware of what I am doing.  It's not a secret or an infringement of his civil rights.  CC

On Nov 24, 2008, at 12:39 PM, NdurN@xxxxxxx wrote:

Just a guess but I would imagine it would have to do with making sure of 1 vote per 1 person/  I read on this same forum where a parent took the 3 ballots that arrived and filled them all in herself and mailed them back.  Perhaps her girls do not care, but I call that an infringement on their rights and if someone in my family took my mail without my knowledge and responded to it, I would be ...mad is not a strong enough word.
 
Susan

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