I had hope that his thread would be about hearing and formulating new ideas, but right now the pro-establishment group refuses to stay out of the mix.

I have spent the better part of two days responding to "We allready have a system in place" comments which come without any ideas or sugjestions. They only continue to say "How About the current way, use the current system, it ain't broken"

So far out of of 43 posts only 10 have ideas, there are 16 comments for or against, 7 toe the AMA line, and 10 rebutals to comments made. So all in al 26 posts discussing the AMA out of 43 is a pretty good average in this Forum.

Another idea I had would be to move toward internet voting to increase participation. You could still mail it in but during the month of the elections you could log on and vote also. A cool thing about this would be that a lot of clubs have their meetings at libraries and if you discuss this with the Librarian you might be able to use one of the public PC's as a mini voting booth.