Steve wrote:
"let's try to make this year's winners really representative of ALL of our club members' votes!!"
Are you saying the previous winners weren't "really representative of ALL of our club members' votes?"
I think they did represent those member who voted. The previous process couldn't be described as elitist since any member, who took the three minutes required of the process, could nominate and vote.
I'm not a fan of "dumbing down" anything.
And at the risk of p i s s i n g off the "no-politics-on-the-board" crowd I'm not sure that there shouldn't be some type of test required to vote in any election, especially one to choose the leader of the "free world".
Having said that, I hope more people participate. It will be interesting to see the numbers.