ELECTION COMMITTEE QUESTIONAIRE

IN YOUR PACKET TO VOTE IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION IS A QUESTIONAIRE ON HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE DVD THEY SENT OUT. PLEASE FILL IT OUT?

THE QUESTIONS:

DID YOU WATCH THE DVD? HOPEFULLY YOU DID AND YOU ANSWERED YES

WAS THE DVD HELPFUL IN MAKING YOUR CHOICES? HOPEFULY YOU ANSWERED YES

DO YOU SUPPORT HAVING A CANDIDATES' FORUM? AGAIN HOPEFULLY YES.

FROM BEING AT THE FORUM LIVE, I CAME AWAY WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU.

UNDER THE PRESENT FORMAT, THE FIRST PERSON ANSWERING THE QUESTION IS LIKE A DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS (MEANING CONFUSED AND UNSURE WHAT TO SAY OR DO). AS THE QUESTION CONTINUES AROUND THE ROOM THE CANDIDATES GET A FEEL OF WHAT THE ANSWER SHOULD BE AND TAILOR THEIR ANSWERS BASED ON WHAT THE OTHER CANDIDATES ARE SAYING. THE LAST PERSON GETTING THE QUESTION HAS NOTHING NEW TO ADD AND MAYBE DOSEN'T COME ACROSS AS GOOD AS MAYBE THEY COULD HAVE.

BROKENWING EDITIORIALS BROUGHT AN IDEA ABOUT THIS TO SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE ELECTION COMMITTEE. THEY HAD ALREADY COME UP WITH THE SAME THING. THE IDEA IS, WHY NOT TAKE EACH CANDIDATE IN A ROOM SEPARATELY, ASKING EACH ONE A SERIES OF THE SAME EIGHT QUESTIONS. EACH CANDIDATE WOULD ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. THE ANSWERS COULD THEN BE PUT IN ORDER ,QUESTION BY QUESTION OF EACH OF THE CANDIDATES' RESPONSES, SO YOU WOULD SEE SOMETHING LIKE WHAT WE SAW ON THIS DVD. IT WOULD GIVE VOTERS MORE CANDID RESPONSES AND WE WOULD HAVE A BETTER IDEA ON HOW CANDIDATES REALLY STAND ON THE ISSUES.


THIS FORMAT WOULD COST CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN THE PRESENT SYSTEM. I THINK WE WOULD USE ONE CAMERA, NOT THREE. YOU WOULD NOT NEED A SOUND MAN. DIRECTOR, ETC.

I CAME UP WITH AN IDEA I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU, HOW ABOUT ON THE BOTTOM OF THE QUESTIONAIRE, IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE CURRENT VOTING ORDINANCE THAT SAYS "REQUIRED"(SO WE HAVE TO VOTE FOR ALL THE POSITIONS OPEN TO HAVE OUR VOTE COUNTED) WE WRITE, "I THINK THE ELECTION ORDINANCE VIOLATES ARTICLE VII-VOTING SECTION 2 IN THE CONSTITUTION." TO THE READERS WHO ALREADY VOTED, WE ARE SORRY. THE IDEA JUST CAME IN. PLEASE CALL THE ELECTION COMMITTEE OR SEND THEM A LETTER STATING THE SAME THING?

SEND IN YOUR QUESTIONAIRES WITH YOUR VOTES. WRITE ON THE BOTTOM " I THINK THE ELECTION ORDINANCE VIOLATES ARTICLE VII-VOTING SECTION 2. IN THE CONSTITUTION."

CHECK OUT THE PREVIOUS ARTICLE, "ELECTION LAW NEEDS TO BE CHANGED."