07-08-2013, 12:05 PM
Proxy votes should absolutely get full value; members may not be able to attend the AGM, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to influence decisions. To give one example, Jonathan Edwards can't manage it because he has a pre-existing coaching commitment at a training day in the north-east of the country, so someone else will have to deliver his marketing director spiel and exercise his vote. I'd struggle to argue that that isn't fair.
I'm not particularly wild about the idea of people turning up with 40 open proxy votes, and I'd be very uncomfortable about any motion being passed or candidate being elected through proxies despite being opposed by the majority of attendees, but it is kind of how democracy works.
I'm not particularly wild about the idea of people turning up with 40 open proxy votes, and I'd be very uncomfortable about any motion being passed or candidate being elected through proxies despite being opposed by the majority of attendees, but it is kind of how democracy works.