[SCA-BMDL] Please Comment on Proposed Policy Changes

[Krista Traini]

Hello! We have some proposed changes to policy that I'd like you to comment on.  

 

You can access a pdf of the policy changes from the website: www.debatablelands.org. Anything in blue or red is a change. There is one extra addition (see below) not appearing in the pdf at this time. If you'd like me to send you a Word document that you can Mark-Up (encouraged), please let me know, and I'll email it to you.  Comments are due by Noon April 7th, before Officers' Meeting.

 

There are several minor changes, plus the addition of an event fee refund policy, and changes to Baronial election policy (primarily how ballots are tallied, and other changes). 

 

Please send me your comments at seneschal at debatablelands.org. Let me know if you have questions about anything, including the change to election policy.  Also, we had a suggestion that our current "ranking" system of voting should be changed to a straight popular vote (i.e.: you vote for your one favorite candidate, and that's it.)  We have not done that in the proposed changes, but I would be interested in hearing opinions on that.

 

~Hilda

Seneschale, BMDL

 

 The pdf document on the website is missing this section, to be added at the end of the Tallying the Votes section on Baronial Election Policy:

 

"V.F.4.c.vi: General Summary of Tallying. The voters rank candidates from most favorite to least favorite.  Take the ballots and you make a pile for each candidate, based on just the first-place votes (ignoring all the other rankings on the ballots).   Then eliminate the candidate with the fewest votes and re-distribute those ballots to the other piles, using the second-place votes.  Keep eliminating the candidate with the fewest votes until you have one candidate left.  This is a summary only; actual tallying process will follow steps i - v. "
 		 	   		  
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