The NRA ballots are out

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Vern Humphrey

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Most people don't understant how NRA Directors are elected.

Your ballot allows you to vote for 26 directors. When the ballots are counted, the person with the most votes gets the first slot, the person with the next largest count gets the next slot, and so on.

Now, the famous people will get a lot of votes -- they're in, period. But if there is someone you particularly support, vote for that person only. Don't add to the other candidate's totals by voting for them, too.
 
Not that I saw, but then I don't know everyone's name, just handles.

The point I'm making is that candidates are running against each other. If you have one or two you want to win -- vote for them only. Don't vote for their opponents, too.
 
Don't much care for the NRA.

Call me paranoid if you like, but the concept of my name, address, and number being on a file with the knowledge that I own firearms doesn't much appeal to me.
 
Vern Humphrey said:
Now, the famous people will get a lot of votes -- they're in, period. But if there is someone you particularly support, vote for that person only. Don't add to the other candidate's totals by voting for them, too.

That is an interesting take on strategic voting that I never thought of before. So I guess that means don't vote for the Nuge, and only vote for people I really like, and not use the rest of my votes for people I only sorta like?


PaZuZu said:
Call me paranoid if you like, but the concept of my name, address, and number being on a file with the knowledge that I own firearms doesn't much appeal to me.

Just because you are in the NRA doesn't mean you own a firearm (I joined before I ever owned any), and couldn't you just donate anonomously?
 
Cool -- thanks for the update!
Do you have to be a life member to get a ballot, or after so many years consecutive yearly memberships do we get to join the annoited? :)

PaZu -- don't worry about it. Your IP is tracked when you come here (no we don't do it, the software and nature of the net itself does).. you have your 4473s on file at your local shops, you've prolly shown your Drivers License at the local range, you might have a CCW.. Face it, if "the man" wants to know if you got heat, he's already got you.

Besides, there's already like what... four million in the NRA? There isn't enough manpower to bust down one NRA member's door in a hundred if it came to that. :p


-K
 
Don't much care for the NRA.

Call me paranoid if you like, but the concept of my name, address, and number being on a file with the knowledge that I own firearms doesn't much appeal to me.

So you post on a gun board?
 
I generally vote for existing directors and the more famous (usually the same people).

I always vote for at least a couple rabble rousers who did not get nominated by the nominating committee, on general principles.
 
Any chance ANY of these folks on the ballot are hard liners? I'm a little sick of compromises. Time to get tough afaic.
 
Vote for Carol Bambery. She rocks.

Carol's running? As long as she's not still involved with that "other" Mi gun group, she has my vote.

Btw, a few years ago someone was calling the strategy of ONLY voting for the person you most wanted to see on the board the "Bullet Ballot." It makes sense to me in these kinds of elections.
 
Who votes? Life members and above (patron, benefactor). I also believe that annual members after five years of membership also receive a ballot. That is the way it used to be prior to my becoming a Life member, but not 100% sure since it no longer applies to me.
 
Now, the famous people will get a lot of votes -- they're in, period. But if there is someone you particularly support, vote for that person only. Don't add to the other candidate's totals by voting for them, too.

I'm not getting that. It seems to me that should only be a problem if you are going to vote for 26 "famous people" and therefore have no room for the unknowns.

Let's say Ted Nugent is going to get 1 million votes. I vote for Ted and I vote for Carol Bambery. So TN gets 1 million and 1 votes. Carol gets all her other votes plus my one vote. If I DON'T vote for TN and still vote for Carol, then she gets the same number of votes but TN gets only 1 million. How does that "hurt Carol" for TN to get a bunch of votes?

Wait, maybe I'm getting a dim light! Are you saying to write the same few names in over and over until you get 26 votes? So you vote for Carol 26 times?! That's an interesting idea if it is actually counted that way. I would think they would just count the first one and ignore the rest?

I used to teach about this type of preferential balloting but I didn't know the NRA was doing it. If you are right, basically you get 26 votes and you can cast them any way you like. If there are three people you FAR prefer, you can just split your 26 votes three ways and maximize their chances.

I've argued before that preferential voting is one of the only ways to settle highly contentious issues like abortion or gun control. You have ten issues on a ballot. Everybody gets ten votes. You can cast one vote on each issue or more votes on a single issue if that is the one you have very strong ideas about. So the general public might vote a single yes or no on a gun control item while the serious gun owners would flood the system with 10 no votes and ignore the rest. People who live and die arguing about abortion would get their preferences weighted as well but only by allowing others to get more say on other issues.

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