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As a non-resident alien former member of AERC, I would like to point 
out that if you are a serious foreign alien, like living in another 
country as I do, voting on anything for AERC isn't really practical.  
As I discovered to my intense disappointment, AERC doesn't send mail 
outside of the US and Canada.  This meant that no one was going to send 
me a ballot for anything, not that I was desperate to vote, and even 
more important, I couldn't get Endurance News in Cairo.  I think that 
the board is being very nice about clearing things up so that resident 
aliens (not the ones from Mars, Truman) do get to vote about things 
that are important to the endurance that they are riding.  But in terms 
of some massive foreign groundswell taking over AERC???  I think that 
the practical aspects of mailing pretty much take care of it.  By the 
time a ballot got from AERC to Cairo or any other alien stronghold, 
most of the board would have died.

Maryanne
Cairo, Egypt

On Friday, Aug 15, 2003, at 17:17 Africa/Cairo, April Johnson wrote:

> I don't think this is a joke or funny. If we (the AERC) are going
> to insist that a person be a citizen or resident of the US to be
> a voting member, shouldn't we do the verification? Otherwise, go
> back to just letting people interested in the sport as it is in the
> US be Regular Members. If we're really concerned about non-citizens
> and non-residents swaying the vote and the direction of the AERC,
> shouldn't we be sure they're not just sending in bogus US addresses,
> collecting their ballots and voting?
>
> It's the same as insisting that horses be 5 before doing an endurance
> ride. If there is no check for the age of the horse, why have the
> rule?
>
> I think this rule about resident aliens is rather beside the point
> until we decide whether or not to validate identity. Otherwise, you
> resident aliens, just provide your address, pay your money and vote,
> who's checking?
>
> April
> Nashville, TN (or so I say)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Teri Hunter" <teri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Oh, this is getting ridiculous..... Lets just look on the back of
> an I-9 and see what is acceptable proof of documents to work in the
> US and go by that while we are at it.
>
>
>
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