From: "Peter Sarony", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subscribers to this site may recall last year's "problems" with a number of
individual NRA members, qualified to vote, not receiving their ballot papers
which should have been included with their Summer Journal. I had the
temerity to warn the CS Editor, who posted my letter on the site. I
suggested that if indeed people had not received their ballot papers, the
NRA election would have been compromised. As a result, an unfortunate and
factually incorrect letter was sent out by the NRA, enclosing a copy of my
CS posting, and his letter was read out by the NRA Chairman at the Umbrella
Tent AGM.
He suggested that such omissions were insignificant, but that as a result of
the concern at the omissions, a new ballot would be held at a cost of
several thousand pounds to the NRA!
Imagine my surprise then this year to discover that my Journal had been sent
to my old home address, despite having formally notified the change of
address in writing to the NRA last December, and again subsequently.
Fortunately this was one letter that the post office did pick up (unopened)
and forward to my current address. Rather more disturbing to me, and the
others who witnessed its unveiling, was the discovery that this time I had
received no ballot papers, only an insert advertising flier!
As I and others have previously and repeatedly requested, I believe it would
be far more satisfactory for independant professionals such as the Electoral
Reform Society to carry out all ballots on behalf of the NRA since the
latter have proved themselves apparently incapable of handling the task
without such errors or omissions.
In case I am not the only NRA member not to have received the ballot forms
for this election in their journal, may I suggest that all CS subscribers
check with as many NRA members as they may be in contact with, to ensure
that they have received their
papers, without which they may be denied the opportunity to vote for whom
they wish to represent their interests on NRA Council and its Committees.
Peter Sarony.
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