GWA electronic ballot

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I don't think you are "supposed" to be voting outside your own region. The instructions with the email introducing the electronic ballot clearly say you will be voting directors in your own region only, plus the national directors. 

  I think the electronic ballot is a good thing. Brings GWA into the 21st century. 

  I wish the candidates or those willing to serve should campaign a bit more than they seem to do. I am not comfortable voting for or against folks I have never met and have never heard from and have no idea what their goals for the organization might be. (I might be familiar with some of their published work, but in most cases that is about it.) If I have no informed opinion, then I don't vote. 

  Maybe I should reach out to the candidates and ask them, but gee whiz couldn't they at least all send around a group email with a few statements in it?  

  Sure maybe in the good ole days everyone knew everyone but that is not true now. The group has expanded to welcome people beyond just individual garden writers. So we have an even wider range of different "agendas" and 'interests" and "needs" than ever before.

  The regions are huge -- for example as a new resident to California I have only been able to attend one meeting in two years. To make that happen, I drove six hours each way and introduced myself to two local "officials" who were understandably too busy running the meeting to talk. Do I have a feel for their aims for the organization based on that? Not really.

  Maybe I am alone in feeling disconnected. Maybe I need to step up and make more effort. Maybe I am expecting too much. Or, maybe GWA doesn't offer me that much in return? Maybe I am just grumpy today. Dunno. 

Barbara Martin 
  FLOWER GARDENS
http://flowergardens.suite101.com/ 
Member, Garden Writers Association

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