{UAH} 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

---In UNAANET@yahoogroups.com, <gmutyaba@...> wrote :

The electoral commission of the Ugandan North American Association (UNAA) put up elections guidelines to be followed by all parties vying for leadership positions in UNAA.

The guidelines had requirements like deadlines and seconders plus other restrictions that left many unqualified to participate in this year's UNAA elections. Among the requirements were, members had to be in good standing to be eligible to vote on both at the convention and online.

 

However, after seeing the number of member registering, the electoral commission is trying to change the rules of the game, in the middle of the game by disallowing members to vote on line.

 

 This is an attempt to suppress voters and rig elections for Mr. Atigo, who appointed the electoral commission. It is also an attempt to slow down UNAA members from registering to vote. We have seen this before; most especially the just concluded Kyadondo East, elections in Uganda.

 

We are in a country of laws, and will not allow this to happen. Fellow Ugandans, continue to register before the deadline as we work on the process to stop the disfranchising voters and rigging elections for Mr. Atigo.