Bob
The fairly obvious answer is
Remove the EC from deciding which qualified candidates get to be on the ballot.
(read: Dont let the EC decide who lost before the ballots get printed and members get to vote)

Make it an Election committee rather than a nomination commitee, just check that they meet the requirements and dont do that behind closed doors... the requirements are pretty much public info, right? Tell us why guys were cut in the candidate anouncement: "Nominee JoeBlow did not meet XXX requirement to be on the ballot."


The fix is simple.
Getting the guys in charge to accept, endorse, and implement the fix is hard.
By the conspiracy theory,
the ones that have the power to stop the Good Ole Boy system are part of that alleged system,
and even if 2 or 3 "outsiders" or "guys that are hard to work with" are elected, that will just be 3 vs 10 or so in any EC vote to fix anything.

Bob, you like MarkS
will he help you "fix" the nomination process to get the EC's fingers out of controlling the names on the ballot?

Member Input appears to have taken a backseat to Muncie Steering recently
in both the Nominations and the 60k email poll that came back negative on PPP.
Maybe Muncie dont care what the members want or who the members want.
Maybe, maybe not.
I'll let each of ou think that one over and draw your own theories on if Muncie wants to "fix"(oops, that sounds bad) "repair" the nominations/elections