{UAH} RESPONSE to Kwesiga: Elections

Mr Kwesiga,

1. I don't know how they do it in person. Would they do it the same way via online voting?

I pointed out that I do not know why the EC deiced to allow online voting and I do not know why they reversed course.  Assuming that the EC has valid reasons for reversing course, what would be wrong with that?  What reason did the EC give for allowing online voting...and what reasons have they given for reversing course?

2. I agree that many contracts are signed online.  But I hope you will agree with me that most contracts are not signed that way...even when both parties have the capacity to do so.  Why?

3. I did not say that there is a constitutional requirement for voters to have an interest in UNAA...where did you see it?  I specifically mentioned "integrity of the elections" and the importance of voters having an interest in UNAA.  Wasn't that the reason we excluded voters from Kampala?

4. I note that you didn't address the other points in my email. e.g under article 3, can new members vote this year?  Hahaha.
---In UNAANET@yahoogroups.com, <brian.kwesiga@...> wrote :

Mr. Musoke:

1) How does UNAA currently verify that one has lived in North America for the last one year, even with in-person voting?

2) Today, many contracts, including those worth millions of dollars are signed online, how do institutions verify that it is indeed the intended party signing these documents?

3) What constitutional requirement says one has to have "an interest" in UNAA to vote? And how do you even measure this "interest"? What levels reach acceptable levels? 

By the way, you are dearly missed, this election cycle is very boring without your involvement. Your numerous missives and updates about all things UNAA including the lawsuit are very much missed.

Please resume as your earliest convenience.

Brian M. Kwesiga

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From: "Joseph Musoke joseph.musoke@... [UNAANET]" <UNAANET@yahoogroups.com>
To: "ugandans-at-heart@..." <ugandans-at-heart@...>; Yahoogroups <unaanet@yahoogroups.com>; "unaa@..." <unaa@...>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 12:56 PM
Subject: [UNAANET] RESPONSE to Mutyaba: Elections

 

Mr Mutyaba,

I have to confess that I have not been following this year's election process but your email caught my eye. 

I didn't know that UNAA had allowed online voting.  I don't know why the EC decided to have online voting and I don't know why they have reversed course...maybe they have discovered that they can't really ensure the integrity of online voting?  May be their favored candidate isn't registering many on passive members (i.e members that have no interest in UNAA's convention)?

How were they going to ensure that the voter has lived in north America for the last year? How would they ensure that the person voting is the one that registered? How would they prevent someone from registering tens of voters that have zero interest in UNAA and have them vote online?  How would they prevent a repeat of Dallas where folks that no interest in UNAA had membership paid for them and they showed up just showed to vote and left?  etc

Article 3.3.1: Membership dues paid in a current fiscal year shall be valid for membership for the following fiscal year.  This article clearly says that new members can't vote this year... are they going to repeat the "soft rigging" of Dallas where the constitution was ILLEGALY "suspended temporarily" so as to allow members that didn't qualify to vote?  Or they will repeat the blatant rigging of 2015 where membership was corruptly extended for 2 years and non members were allowed to vote?

this is fun...hahaha