First, the strange Bronstein emailer is back. Remember when somebody sent out an email on behalf of Nate's campaign from a mysterious email address? Well, recipients got another email today:
Thank you for electing Nate Bronstein!
I knew we could do it.
Very strange. I am pretty curious about who was behind this. But not so curious that I will devote any more thought to it.
Also, I want to commend former Acting Chair of the BOE Bikram Kohli on his efforts to persuade the Senate to do a better job of coming up with regulations for the elections. In an email, he said:
As my last act before resuming my duties as Secretary of the Board of Elections, I petition the Senate to do a complete overview (preferably, overhaul) of the Election Regulations and relevant portions of the By-laws. I request that the Elections Oversight Committee be tasked with the job of coming up with a set of Election Regulations that are not vague and unclear. I also petition that a member of the Board be part of this Committee to provide valuable input and suggestion seeing, as the one tasked with upholding the Regulations, the Board is best suited to articulate the difficulties related to the elections process.
I plan to propose my own solutions for what should be changed at some point.
Mike,
ReplyDeleteI am glad to hear that you have your own suggestions as to how we can make things better. Even before Bikram had mentioned it, the Senate has taken the first step in making the next fall and spring elections better. After the fall elections the Senate created a committee to look into the conduct of the fall elections. Since then, the committee has been reformed with a new purpose pursuant to former Speaker Merkwae's legislative order 09-10-008.
The first meeting of the Election Oversight Committee will be this week, at a date and time to be determined.
I assure you the Senate is working to make sure next time around, things go more smoothly.
Sincerely,
Eric Reath, Election Oversight Committee Chairman