Re: [RCSE] Last week to vote in the LSF Elections

[Mrmaseratiman]

Rob Glover wrote: see my reply below.

Dave -

I appreciate your encouraging folks to vote, and I agree that the criteria that you have laid out SHOULD be enough for the LSF voter qualifications under the existing bylaws. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be working out this way under the current administration. I fear that a number of the people who you encourage may be disappointed. They should still try to vote, but you may hear from some folks about this.

As I remember the bylaws they state that any form of contact with the LSF within the last 2 years qualifies a member to vote. Seems pretty simple. A Nats entry form that is sent to the LSF's own Nats registrar complete with a valid address should be enough, if the person is a level I or better. Unfortunately a number of these folks have contacted me and told me that they were not allowed to vote. It appears to me that the current administration does not think that these folks meet the requirements.

I have also been contacted by several level IV members who were bounced by the voting system. It seems that a number of these folks are also not in the LSF database. They should all be in there in perpetuity even without a communication every 2 years.

I have not raised a stink about this because I'm not sure that the current administration has the ability to competently update their database in a timely manner to allow these folks to vote even if they so desired. It's obvious to me that they have not maintained the database in a manner that we might have wished in the past, and it may be too late to try and do so now.

I hope that whoever wins this election will upgrade these systems. I think that the past administration has not expected folks to be interested in voting, and has perhaps fostered this disinterest to some degree. I am greatly heartened that so many folks have chosen to vote and become more active, and I hope that more do so in the future.

happy trails - Rob Glover



Good thoughts Rob, very good. It's pretty obvious that we have some work cut out to do for LSF and regardless of whomever takes the helm of LSF for the next four years, your group or TK's, really good things are about to happen for LSF and R/C Soaring.

There is a ton of new interest in R/C Soaring and LSF and we have to make sure that we capture this new interest and the pilots that are creating this interest and somehow make it easy for all LSF members to want to continue to belong and participate in LSF.

Unfortunately, not all Nats entries are LSF members, not required to be to fly at the Nats, which by the way is an AMA Event that we, the LSF, run for them and thats where the lack of a mechanism to utilize the Nats entry database to our advantage needs to be possibly created for the 2004 AMA/LSF Soaring Nats.

       Regards, Dave Corven.