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It would seem to me that the AERC mailing each family member's ballots 
separately is a terrible waste of money and resources.  Wouldn't it be 
better to stuff the number of ballots needed in one envelope?  Or 
better, yet, let those of us who are tech savvy, do all of our voting 
online?  "

I'll take on the second part of this and let the office respond on the 
first.

Voting online might be easy but here's my view of why we don't.

The ballots have to be secret.  That really means it can't be done with 
the AERC member's pages or the AERC site
because they are maintained by Russ and me - with both of us being AERC 
members - and in my case
one of the candidates.

This means that it would have to go to an outside online company that we 
would have to pay to handle it.
There would have to be a verification scheme to make sure only those who 
are voters would be able to vote.
We would have to supply info from the AERC database to make this 
happen.  That's significant extra work on the
part of the office, Russ, and me.

AERC is already paying a company to handle the paper ballots with 
respect to counting, validating,
and reporting.  This is done so that it's clear that all members of ARC 
including the office are not
involved in any aspects of the balloting other than sending them out.

So while it might be nice to have voting online - and might actually 
increase the number
voting - it's not feasible in my view.  What we might save in postage 
and paper ballots would go to the
online company.

Mike





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