29-12-2011, 06:20 PM
David
My feeling is that the vast majority of people do not attend the AGM because they do not perceive it as worth their while. If you make it easy to do so virtually then I would hope that you would be getting more people involved the decision making process than you would be excluding by removing proxy voting. Especially if you consider that one can access computers relatively easily even if you do not own one (local libraries, cyber cafes etc).
Perhaps the proxy votes should be then limited to those most likely to be PC-Phobic: the seniors!
My feeling is that the vast majority of people do not attend the AGM because they do not perceive it as worth their while. If you make it easy to do so virtually then I would hope that you would be getting more people involved the decision making process than you would be excluding by removing proxy voting. Especially if you consider that one can access computers relatively easily even if you do not own one (local libraries, cyber cafes etc).
Perhaps the proxy votes should be then limited to those most likely to be PC-Phobic: the seniors!