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From: peter@sug.std.com (Peter Salus)
Subject: Re: Nominating Committee
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Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 18:18:29 GMT
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In article <1991May20.154624.7781@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> shore@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Melinda Shore) writes:
>[]
>Does the association intend to differentiate, on the ballot or
>anywhere else, nominees selected by the committee and nominees 
>who get on the ballot by petition (*5* signatures)?
>-- 

While the Committee's defined task is to report to the 
membership (not to the Board of Directors), I think that 
it is important to note that (a) in 1988 and in 1990 there 
was no differentiation on the ballot of the source of a 
nominee's name; (b) Melinda's "or anywhere else" is a problem:
obviously, names of people nominated by petition at the 
January 1992 San Fancisco meeting will not have appeared on 
the Nominating Committee's Report -- clearly this is a 
"differentiation."  If Melinda means "will they be stigmatized in
some way" on the final list of candidates, on the ballot, or in 
;login:," I certainly hope not.

USENIX has been extremely democratic in the past.  The electorate 
has: elected those nominated by the committee
     not elected those nominated by the committee
     elected those nominated by petition
     not elected those nominated by petition

Peter

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