I may as well keep rustling a few more feathers.
I'm at the understanding that a lot of clubs are voting as a committee and submitting their votes to AARCMCC, rather than go to the actual members. (Assumption)
To eliminate this and grow our sport, surely we can move this to online, (It is 2015)
It would be EXTREMELY easy and cost effective, to utilise a platform such as Survey Monkey, which has a large number of controls to monitor the authenticity of these votes, such as who opened the email, how long they viewed the email for. IP, etc etc etc. You can almost customise your own reports.
Process such as the following,
1. Registration forms are submitted to AARCMCC with persons credentials including email.
2. This is imported in to Survey Monkey, and the recording system that AARCMCC use??
3. The submission is sent out via the platform and voting commences, you put a time frame on when voting for the certain change closes, 2 - 4 weeks, and then based on the results, the submission is declined or implemented.
Surely this is the fastest way forward for "OUR" sport to grow, let's face it there are a lot of "clubs" that are "swayed" by certain individuals / shop owners. And this isn't in the best interest of "OUR" sport.
Mod, can we please put up another poll, purely a yes or no, I am loving the voting synopsis's
Nathan
PS, what's the bet the first argument I get is what about the people without email access, well if you haven't got an email address, I'm surprised you have running water
A way around this is to submit a paper vote and have a one month time frame to return.
Years ago, I said what I thought made the most sense to directly give everyone who has an interest, a valid and equal say...
Everyone who races an AARCMCC event, needs a direct yearly membership to AARCMCC, which includes several important things.
One is a numbered membership card issued as a license to race by AARCMCC, this entitles you to race state and national events.
Next is of course a web site that incorporates many things, first and foremost being a direct right to vote on any matter that directly involves you.
Somewhere in all that you also have regional reps, and manpower to manage all that.
Will any of it happen?, probably never, it's like all politics, people like being able to position themselves into power positions where they have more say than others, and like to think their opinions matter more than others, giving them that right, and because of how most positions of power are structured, they will never change no matter how many people have better ideas, or how much people in positions of power abuse their power.
Simple yes?, but it's just an opinion, from something who thinks it's based in pure fact, take it or leave it, I don't really care these days.