(Hopefully getting the thread back on track...:-)

While it may have been somebody else's idea in the history of AMA, the current incarnation came out of an effort I lead about a year ago. As some may recall, I established an "electronic petition" on my home web site asking the EC to consider modifying the current election procedures and get away from the "plurality" as the means of electing.

While that suggestion was not accepted, out of the discussion came the idea of the nomination procedure invloving a vote of the District's Leader members to pare the nominations down to just two for the actual ballot. Below is a part of a note I posted on the AMA D2 e-mail list.

Regards,

Bill Lee

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If AMA history is any guide, very few elections carried out with a "primary" and a "runoff" format would ever lead to a second election. And several alternatives have been proposed that would even make that unnecessary, such as allowing the nominating process be carried out by the Leader Members of AMA, leading to a final vote of the membership with only two candidates for a position. We, AMA, made good use of the Leader Members just recently with the request for support of the Free Flight site in New York. This may have been the first use AMA has made of the Leader Members in many, many years. Perhaps now it is time to expand their involvement by letting them select their candidates for their Districts and for the national AMA offices.