6th October 2011, 09:45 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:Congratulations Chiz (and Sophie and Geoff)....
.....but 4% is very low. Without appearing to look the proverbial gift horse in the mouth, would you be interested in raising this in Council? It seems to me that there has to be a better way for democracy and the IfA to co-exist (yeah yeah I hear the baying laughter already from 'oop north...'). Maybe if online voting was allowed it might be one way to encourage people to vote.....just pressing a button rather than having to find an envelope and a stamp. It seems to me that you already begin with a huge disadvantage. Any critic only needs to say 'Well you whole lot are only representative of 4% of the small percentage of archaeologists who are members of IfA anyway. What does that represent in real terms?'
Even with online voting I cannot see it making much of a difference to the amount, even though people with just a few taps on a key-board could make their voices heard will chose to do nothing!!!! I am finding this out myself that apathy rules, trying to motivate people to just vote online is producing near total 'no-response'-no matter what the issue!!!