Answer a Puzzle; A New Vote-less Category

Hilary Clinton, Donald Trump, Bill Shorten or Malcolm Turnbull. 

Living in democracies and regardless of their political points of view, they all have a privilege that Yeshivah doesn't appear to believe should be extended to those standing as candidates in elections.

Check out Clause 20.2 - ELECTION PROCESS, same clause in both the CIVL and YBRSL constitutions, for the latest intolerable, infuriating practice.    You'll find (d) smartly and specifically excludes all standing candidates from an entitlement to vote.

Where do I begin???

It's not the first time I've written about the paramount privilege as a member of an organisation being the entitlement to vote.    However once again, something is amiss.  For those willing to step forward and toss their hats in the ring, to contend for leadership in the organisations, for some bizarre reason, we see a newly formed category of vote-less members.

And for those (which millennia are they from?) who still believe that a candidate shouldn't vote for themselves...well if there is an entitlement in both YBR and CIVL to vote for several additional candidates above one position - how is it that a candidate has no right to participate in an election as to who should hold these alternate positions?

Let's not forget the possibility that a candidate will lose altogether - and lets accept it, someone has to. So now we have a nominee who 'gave it a go'.  What was their sole outcome?  They lost all rights and privileges they may have had to contribute at all to the quality of leadership, to who SHOULD be a new member of a particular board!    Hundreds had a say... but not the candidate.  By virtue of their care and concern, these individuals lost all entitlements to contribute to a voice in the leadership of that organisation at all.  If that wouldn't put you off standing, I don't know what would.

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In the meantime, I have no intention of dropping the baby or the bath-water.   While the bulk of the community seeks to come to grips with the newly established constitutions and the processes required for legitimate investiture of new leadership - there continues to have been no comment by the 'faceless individuals' who have inappropriately designated appointees to the YBRSL Board, in the 'pretence' of being members of the Board of YCL.  

Just how long will it take for these people to get the message that their behaviour is neither tolerable nor acceptable?  This is a community preparing to participate in its first mandated elections and this old, self-serving culture, needs to be done with.  

What about the appointee?  What does this individual think about naming the manner in which he/she was approached?  Nothing like some sunshine to clean out the grime and the slightest whiff of culpability.

...marcia pinskier