2009-10-13-Open Letter Re: Voting At AGM

Letter to the community & committee of Mi-Sol Park

For the Open Forum on the 13/10/09

I have not been voted on as a committee member which is the right of the comunity.

What I object to is the way in which it was done.

Mrs. Mo Taunton was given 24 proxy votes to do with as she saw fit.  (this was nearly a quarter of the votes)

She says she did not vote herself, but gave them to Roy, as she signed them in as HER proxies, this is illegal.

If the votes were made out to Roy, then he should have signed them in.  Proxy votes cannot be left blank for anyone to use them as the receiver of the proxies has to provide ID.

Mo was given 24 proxy votes which she asked me to split into 6 x 4 votes on the white voting sheets issued to all attendees who signed in.  These sheets were NOT numbered or signed or in anyway had a identifying mark on them.

As the voting papers are published on the blog, it is a simple matter to note that the 6 x 4 voting papers did not vote for either myself or Neill.  Which is entirely the progative of the voter...but pleeeese don't ask how I know Mrs.Mo Taunton or a member of her family did not vote for me. 

The blog shows 66 papers were put into the ballot box, making with the proxies 112 voters.

This is inaccurate..  ????persons signed in, but to my knowledge 2 people did not put thier slips into the ballot box so in that case there could only have been 110 voters+64 sheets of paper

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Mrs.Taunton says the 2/3rds large majority, or half+1 small majority is on the number of persons signed in and able to vote.  I am not completely sure, but I always thought it was based on the number who said yes or no, and the ones who abstained didnot count for anything.

Jean & John who did the original counting of the votes were told that after being checked by 3 independant persons, (although they were not invited to oversee the new count) that they had made a mistake of 29 votes.  Again, do you think that 2 adults, checking each others count could have made such a large mistake?  

The next step in this silly saga was to see if the members voted on to the committee would allow me to be a committee member without a vote.  This was rejected by a vote of 5 to 1 against....again why???

I have asked the president to allow me internet access to the bank account so that I can continue to keep the records up to date for the future.  Orginally this was agreed to, but now it has been revoked on the grounds that 4 other members of the comunity also wish access to the internet bank records.  As this account is in the name of Mi-Sol Park what is the problem??