Voting Power

USGenWeb's Voting Power

Relative voting power of the Regions and the States therein.

Assumptions in a prefect world:

1-All members of The USGenWeb Project, excluding Look-Up Volunteers and Transcribers, shall be eligible to vote.

2-All Sates will have all CC/LC positions filled with one Co-CC/LC, no duplicates.

Key region to control national elections = SEMA

Key States = all regions, IA, NE, GA, NC, TN, VA, MO, TX, IL.

[This is why candidates often have county sites in one or more of these states.]

In a Region like SWSC, Texas would almost always dominate the Local Coordinator Regional Representative seats if a person from there were running due to state pride (= votes). The states with fewest number of counties in that region would tend to cancel each other due to the differences in candidate preference. A smart candidate would have county sites in these states if they wanted to be elected to the seat of NC or Rep. at Large: IA, GA, TX, and IL; or from a mix of these: IA, NE, GA, NC, TN, VA, MO, TX, and IL.

Of course, personality counts as does a name that is catchy, or one that is warm and fuzzy.

Betty Wood = warm and fuzzy.

Tina Vickery = catchy.

Linda Blum-Barton = stately and impressive.

Florence Lugbottom is not a good candidate's name.

The real question is this. Why do we have an AB? It has proven to be useless except for promoting itself. It solves no problems. It protects no one. Their committees are hand picked to protect the status quo.

Question #2 is this: What good are State Coordinators? Do they create or solve problems?

State Thingy: