"Sam Sloan" wrote in message
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Outrageous. Mike Nolan has just censored this entire discussion on the
USCF member forum at http://www.uschess.org/forums

Posted: by Mike Nolan on Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:16 am

The topic dealing with Marcus Roberts is inappropriate for this forum
as it discusses confidential USCF membership information, so it has
been removed from public view.

This is the rule of the Negative Instance. Should anyone press Mike Nolan
what is allowable on the forum he will refer you to rules [which are
procedures], but what he does is to ban topics.

In this instance Bill Hall refunded membership to Marcus Robert's card some
3 months ago - yet somehow he actually recieved a ballot!

How many other instances are their? We will never learn about if the ballot
is inadvertently stuffed, since a contractor has deemed it 'inappropriate' -
but to what?

What would happen if there was no inadvertance to the ballot stuffing? Would
incumbent Don Shultz tell anyone? Who? He certainly could not be able to do
so at his own website's forum, jovially known as NolanLand.

PI


Mike Nolan

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:34:07 GMT, (Sam Sloan)
wrote:

Marcus Roberts reversed the credit card charges for his USCF Life
Membership !!!!

Grant Perks, the USCF In-House Accountant and also a candidate for
election to the USCF Executive Board, has posted the startling news
that Marcus Roberts purchased a Life Membership for himself and
regular memberships for nine other people but then subsequently
reversed all the credit card charges for these ten memberships.

Perks says that nevertheless Marcus Roberts and his nine friends have
all received ballots for the current election. Perks wants these ten
ballots to be declared invalid and not counted.

This revelation raises so many questions I cannot even list them all.
First, I do not think that Marcus Roberts or anybody else should be
allowed to reverse credit card charges for a USCF Membership,
particularly where, as here, an election is involved.

Secondly, Grant Perks became aware of this situation by working in the
Crossville Office of the USCF. The other candidates, with the
exception of Ernie Schlich, do not work for the USCF and therefore
would never have known about this.

Judging by the postings by Marcus Roberts on the Internet, it is most
unlikely that Marcus Roberts would vote for Grant Perks or for any
other current USCF employee. Since this election is likely to be
close, Grant Perks is understandably concerned about losing these ten
votes and therefore has complained.

Marcus Roberts is still listed on the USCF website as a Life Member of
the USCF.

http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12421655

Here is the posting by Grant Perks on this subject:

"I understand that 10 or more ballots were sent to individuals
who should not be considered current members. Apparently an electronic
credit card payment by Marcus Roberts for his life membership as well
as annual memberships for 9 other residents of Florida was backcharged
by American Express at Mr. Roberts's request in March 2006. The USCF
did not correct the membership records for Mr. Roberts, and I assume
they did not correct the membership records of the other 9
individuals.

"In my opinion, the USCF office should review their backcharge
and credit card reversal transactions for the past twelve months to
identify any potential individuals that should be denied voting
privileges. Once identified, the ballots of those individuals should
not be counted in the state delegate election nor special board
election.

"Best,
"Grant Perks"