Sam Sloan wrote:

[SNIP]

I have replied to the duplicated message posted under the subject
"Should Marinello and Hanke be Permanently Expelled, Barred and Banned
from the USCF??"

Best regards,

George John

[crossposting snipped]

"Sam Sloan" wrote in message
...

Also, one board member, Tim Hanke, has gone missing since February 10
and the delegates could take action such as remove him or even expel
him. Several persons have even suggested that Beatriz Marinello could
be expelled from the USCF by the delegates.

Not true. He's participated in most conference calls and attended, by phone,
the Minneapolis meeting in May.

"Sam Sloan" wrote in message
...

The term I heard was hand-written ballots. That term may not be
accurate.

Shades of Peter Leko. Sam misreported something once again.

(Sam Sloan) writes:

I have since heard that after the ballot count was finished, Pete
Tamburo and Roger English spent several hours pulling out and batching
several hundred questionable ballots. I have been told that the
delegates will be called upon to rule on whether these ballots count
or not.

Those are the ballots for which there was no pre-printed member information,
either because they were among the ballots that were not preprinted due
to the printer's error or because the member tore off and returned only
the bottom part of the ballot and did not return the pre-printed portion.
(It wasn't always clear which was the case.)

Based on advice from our attorneys, all ballots were counted where
the voting member could be identified, either because the preprinted
information was present or sufficient other information was present
(either on the ballot or the envelope) to identify the voting member.

According to Pete Tamburro, there were 269 ballots that were counted where
the member information used to identify the voting member was not the
pre-printed information.

If there was no member information present, or the information present
was insufficient to identify the voting member, the ballot was not counted.
There were 75 such ballots.

In about a dozen cases, all involving the ballots from Chess Life, a
portion of the pre-printed information was missing because the ballot
was damaged in the mail. If the remaining information was sufficient
to identify the member and if the vote portion of the ballot was intact,
the ballot was counted.

The Delegates will be asked to certify the unofficial counts as announced
on July 22nd. The Delegates, of course, have the final say and may
choose to exclude the non-imprinted ballots, but that will not be the
recommendation from the Chief Teller (Pete Tamburro) or the chair of the
Election Procedures Committee (Mike Nolan).
--
Mike Nolan

(Sam Sloan) writes:

There have been numerous cases where members have been suspended. Mike
Nolan, Roman Dzindzichashvilli and Stan Vaughan were all suspended I
believe. (Roman might have been expelled). The reasons were relatively
trivial.

That is not correct. My USCF membership was never suspended. I expect
an immediate correction of your factual error.
--
Mike Nolan

Mencken's "Notes on Democracy" is one of the greatest books ever written. It
should be required reading for every high school student.


"Mike Murray" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:32:21 -0400, "Angelo DePalma"
wrote:

I prefer the John Birch society's old saw about democracy: Two wolves and
a
lamb deciding what's for dinner.

Mencken: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what
they want and deserve to get it good and hard."

LOL! Do you REALLY expect an immediate correction of Sam's factual
error, Mike? )

Bruce

"Bruce" wrote in message
oups.com...

LOL! Do you REALLY expect an immediate correction of Sam's factual
error, Mike? )

I'm waiting for Larry Parr to correct any one of his bull**** tips.

The USCF have two years of profitable results but Don and Bill are back at
helm of the Titanic and there are plenty of icebergs for them to clip. The
2007 financial statements will be the real acid test.

On 4 Aug 2005 13:54:20 -0700, "Bruce" wrote:

LOL! Do you REALLY expect an immediate correction of Sam's factual
error, Mike? )

Bruce

Bruce, I am sure that you remember very well that Mike was suspended.

Why don't you tell the rest of us why he was suspended and what he was
suspended from?

I am susprised that Mike did not just let this one pass.

Sam Sloan

(Sam Sloan) writes:

Bruce, I am sure that you remember very well that Mike was suspended.

Why don't you tell the rest of us why he was suspended and what he was
suspended from?

I am susprised that Mike did not just let this one pass.

Anyone who wants the details can research them on Google. However, it
is a fact that my USCF membership has never been suspended, and you
still have not corrected that factual error or apologized for it.
--
Mike Nolan