Re: Just so I'm clear

[[e-mail] (Martin Rex)]

Doug Barton wrote:
>
> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>> 
>> Let me get this straight: for the sake of procedures that are clearly
>> designed to be hard to use,
> 
> While I think that 3777 probably errs on the side of too hard to use,
> recalling someone from one of these positions _should_ be hard to do,
> and should not be undertaken lightly.

There is a good reason why procedures for recalling someone from
a position in a decision-making body with elected members is much
harder than electing the person into that body.

Sometimes, members are elected by only a small majority over competitors,
and they even may have been "weak supporting" votes, and those may even
be known to each member.  Now it happens that those decision bodies
have to occasionally make contentious or unpopular, but necessary
and hopefully rational and mostly unbiased decisions,

What you want to avoid is those members with "weak" votes to worry
about mainly pleasing one or a few very specific "voters" during
those decisions, that could otherwise have them recalled by just
those persons not voting for them again in the recall procedure.


On a different issue:  The "legal" procedure if someone does not
perform his agreed duties and falls into total inactivity would
be (German legalese "(Ver)säumnisurteil"), which Wikipedia maps to
this english term:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_judgment


-Martin