[Northkeep] principality

[Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner]

Good Question.  I hope those who organized it can answer you.  It seems
highly unlikely 53 paid members would have had all their ballots or
whatever they used to inform people lost in the mail. I just wondered
why those who did know about it and claimed to have an opinion, chose
not to paricipate.

Ismet

Karl Mensik wrote:
>
> You know I have a lot of people up here in Ponca City
> 53 total and not one of them including myself knew
> about the poll witch was supposed to have been sent
> out to all paid members well I have been a paid member
> in this kingdom for 4 years and a member for 15 total
> so what is the problem their?
>
>    Ian McCallum
> c
> --- Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner
> <BurgBorrendohl at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > To expand on what Marc/Diarmaid has said, it is too
> > bad that those who
> > were opposed (or in favor for that matter) did not
> > participate in the
> > poll.  Just like any election or poll, how will the
> > people's voice be
> > known if they don't take part?  Do we ignore
> > election results, just
> > because a large portion of the population refuses to
> > vote in a
> > presidential election?  We will admitt (and now
> > regret) that we did not
> > care at the time one way or another, so we stayed
> > out of it. (Partly
> > because mundane issues prevented our feeling we had
> > an informed opinion
> > one way or the other). However, if we had been
> > strongly for or against
> > we would have definitely expressed ourselves rather
> > than muttering or
> > ignoring the issue, hoping it would go away.  The
> > time may not be right
> > for the principality.  If we wait for all factions
> > to agree on
> > everything, it will never happen.  However, as my
> > husband is always
> > saying, (a quote from guess where--hint kingdom to
> > the north of us) "If
> > you want to be a Principality start acting like
> > one."  This was a quote
> > from a Midrealm crown which sparked their
> > principality movement.
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