No... What Mr. Downing did was make a unilateral decision to count every vote without first consulting his entire Executive Committee, holding a meeting and gaining their vote on the issue and then informing the Entire Board and asking for Ratification. The election company was told what to do, and without the minimum of at least the Full Executive Committee's motion, 2nd, and affirmative vote to direct them to count all the ballots. Further, 2 full Board Meetings came and went without the entire Board of Directors being made aware there was an issue and to at a minimum ratify what was done. It wasn't until the 3rd full board meeting that an apology was given -- yet later that year the same type of unilateral decisions were made for the Executive Committee and Entire Board without their knowledge, input, vote or ratification. I'm not saying that anything this current group has done was any better handled, in fact, in a lot of cases, I'm dismayed but I have confidence that the membership will have a memory of what transpired in the past, even through all the smoke-screen. Kathaleen -----Original Message----- From: showgsd-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:showgsd-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ELG440@xxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:43 PM To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] De Je Vou all over again In a message dated 10/10/2007 7:03:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time, hardcastle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: I think the board is trying to guarantee every member that their marked up ballots will be counted. Then the elected can stand and be called valid. Isn't that what Ken did a few years ago, and got blasted for asking our company to count every vote they could? Evan ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2007. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - www.showgsd.org ============================================================================