Re: My OA Election Rule Question
Bruce E. Cobern (bec@NYC.PIPELINE.COM)
Fri, 31 May 1996 14:41:03 GMT
On May 31, 1996 07:13:06, 'Scott Drown <scottdd@HALCYON.COM>' wrote:
>I would like to thank all of you for the answers re my election question.
>It is definite that 3 of the 4 candidates were not eligible. I have
spoken
>with the District Exec and the Chapter Adviser and the election will be
>voided, fortunately the results were not announced.
I am glad to see that, from the Council and Lodge's standpoint the right
thing is being done and you will, ultimately, have a proper result for the
boys in your troop.
>I got a call last night from the CC, who is an OA member, who told me that
>he had spoken with the Lodge Chief and the Lodge Adviser and had been led
>astray by the OA election team, that the 3 scouts were not eligible and
>then proceeded to tell me that the ineligible Scout who was elected should
>stay as elected as he was a good friend of the CC's son and he would be of
>great help to his son in getting the Chapter active again.
This is totally IRRELEVANT.
>He added that if I wanted to stop it I would have to write letters to do
so as the
>results had already been forwarded to National.
This is just NOT TRUE. Individual election results are NEVER forwarded to
national. National never even gets the names of the people who complete
the Ordeal, only totals during the charter renewal process. The election
results are forwarded to the lodge so they can invite the candidates to the
Ordeal. Since the lodge has already acknowledged the error this should not
be a problem.
Your CC obviously has an agenda which is totally inappropriate. Good luck
in that part of the problem.
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Bruce E. Cobern
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