At the weekend I attended the annual meeting of a national UK membership association.
Candidates for national office and for the national committee presented their case to an audience of 150 or so members and were subject to questioning. The votes of those present determined the outcome of the elections. There was vigorous debate over a motion and all present left, I sensed, feeling that they had had an opportunity to participate and influence the organisation for another year.
Might not this be a better model for ASCC than postal balloting which does not appear to produce a higher turnout and which lacks the vital sense of face to face discussion and debate that is so central to the democratic process?
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