Who gets to vote on endorsements?

Written by: Doug Gibson on Dec 19, 2007 5:56 PM EST

This thread is here for folks to comment on why they voted the way they did in our online endorsement polls, and specifically on the questions of whether to allow online voting and whether to limit who can vote.

(For those of you who came here from Blog for America, please note that we're talking about Asheville Democracy for America's endorsement process, not on DFA's endorsement process. DFA-Asheville is a state-level PAC in North Carolina, so we'd have a hard time endorsing anyone not in North Carolina.)

And if you came here first, and want to jump to our polls, vote here on whether to allow online voting, and here on whether to limit who gets to vote.

Update (Wednesday 12/19, 8:20 pm)

As promised, here's a little more on how things might shake out if we did online voting. If we don't restrict who gets to vote, we could just run an online poll like the ones we're doing this week. If we restrict it to DFA-LInk members, we could set up an online event and allow people to RSVP a "yes" if they're in favor, or a "no" if they're opposed. Tighter restrictions (and I'm personally in favor of some restrictions along the lines that Alan suggests below) would probably mean a vote by e-mail.

As far as restrictions go, DFA-Link gives us info on when people joined our group, so beyond a little extra clerical work, it shouldn't be too difficult to impose a "registered before x date" requirement. Some sort of "active member" requirement would be a little harder. We don't take attendance, and our event RSVP's tend to have only a passing resemblance to the actual turnout at any given event.

Anyway, just some food for thought. Thanks for dropping by! 

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