[Kzyxtalk] [MCN-Discussion]- [MCN-Announce]- Announcement: No KZYX ballot, no confidence.

[Doug McKenty]

Yes,

Asking the League of Women Voters to oversee elections at MCPB is a good idea!  Some sort of third party should be involved here. It is my understanding that the MCPB protocols require at least a committee to run each election, which could theoretically contain board members and other KZYX members that represent the minority viewpoint. 

As it stands, the current board has elected only to appoint one election coordinator to oversee all aspects of the election. While Stuart Campbell is doing his best, it is challenging for one person to do all the work, and make all the decisions, without others to help and act as a check and balance on personal bias.  (We all have them!!)

I was happy to see MendocinoTV host a debate this year, just to add such third-party legitimacy. Though Stuart has done a great job handling this responsibility alone, any and all moves to add transparency and decentralization to this election process would be welcome in my view.  I hope the new board takes ideas like these seriously. 

Doug 

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> On Mar 23, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Kathy <kathy at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> It would be easy to remedy this in the future by asking the local chapter of the League of Women Voters to conduct future elections
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 23, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org> wrote:
>> 
>> http://kzyx.org/index.php/about-us/station-business/contact-the-board
>> 
>>    No KZYX board election ballot yet in my p.o. box, despite my having 
>> called the station weeks ago because others told me they got theirs, and 
>> despite my having written, communicated with Stuart Campbell, got via 
>> email a form to fill out and filled it out and signed it to swear, as 
>> requested, that if I got a ballot beyond the one I didn't get but might 
>> get I'd destroy it, and physically mailing that form to the address 
>> provided on it by the "election coordinator". And a full week after 
>> that, after checking my p.o. box again, I'm out of town, as I said I 
>> would be, and won't get to my box now until the night of Saturday the 
>> 28th, a single post-office day before the election deadline.
>> 
>>    I'm beginning to think somebody up there (at KZYX) doesn't like me. 
>> Also, given how the board and management have behaved so far in other 
>> areas, this doesn't inspire confidence in the election process. I wonder 
>> how many other members didn't get their ballot; and how would it even be 
>> possible to find out?
>> 
>>    In the previous election less than a third of the members' votes 
>> were even counted and, given that, a reform candidate lost by a handful 
>> of  votes.
>> 
>>    And in case this is the only chance I get to officially say so, 
>> which it looks like it is, if I had not been prevented from voting I 
>> would have voted for Dennis O'Brien and Doug McKenty, based on their 
>> candidate statements, their writing to kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org, and their 
>> comments at the single short farce of an on-air forum.
>> 
>> ---------------------------
>> 
>> Marco McClean
>> memo at mcn.org
>> http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com
>> 
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