What's wrong with voting at Nats?

[MICHAEL BRYANT <MBRYANT@weber.edu>]

1. By not discussing and voting at Nats, we lose the most democratic
forum possible. Open face-to-face democracy, with the largest
collection of national voters, clearly seems preferable to closed
ballot mail surveys.

2. Having just left an organization that seems incapable of finding
it's own past notes of meetings, it just seems that CEDA is better
served by keeping the votes and discussion in the open.

3. The discussion made possible in an open vote is far more conducive
to democratic decision-making than in mail votes.

4. Giving up the above advantages out of some overblown fear that
this might "rip" CEDA apart seems to be literally throwing the baby
out with the bathwater. If people committed to teaching debate can't
respect open and democratic debate without alluding to vague fears of
the damage to CEDA tradition and attempts to preclude a democratic
vote, then we may indeed be in more trouble than first surmised.

If the debaters were the ones voting on this, the vote wouldn't even
be close. We should be beware of those that always claim to be
speaking on behalf of the students. If your concerns are the burdens
placed on the students, why not open this vote even more and allow
the students themselves vote? Really, why not?

bear

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