Hello Chuck,
I agree with you that we should consider additional special situations with regard to voting, but we will probably have to deal with them after we get finished with the huge current workload.
Sounds fair to me - just thought I would mention it, while we are considering voting rules.
It doesn't seem to me that a constituency (or in the future a stakeholder group) should lose a vote because their elected councilor has a personal conflict of interest.
Agreed. But at the same time I do think the issue of personal conflicts of interest need to be taken into account. So I think a mechanism that allows a constituency to retain their votes, but prevents an individual from being put in a difficult situation is worthwhile. Another example in the past is how to handle elections to the Board, where a candidate is a sitting Council member. There has been a mechanism used in the past where the constituency can appoint a person to vote on behalf of the constituency, in place of the Council member. Regards, Bruce Tonkin