[MR] Marshal Questions

[logan]

pollings carry only the weight the crown associates with the messenger and
altering that based on how many students they may, or may not, have is
silly.  also whether they live within a particular zip code or not really
has no bearing at all on the counsel they offer the crown.  using me as an
example, since i live 500 miles away now, is applicable.  do i still have
relevant counsel to offer on a knight candidate even though im physically
that far away?  well sure.  i know the fighting community in the sca pretty
well and that community in atlantia better than most.  my location isnt
relevant when discussing someone i have witnessed for the last 10 years.
living in the southern end of the kingdom there have always been candidates
from the northern most reaches that i knew nothing, at all, about.  not so
much in the fighting community as candidates for the chivalry are highly
specialized and the pool is very very small.  however, with say the golden
dolphin or the sea stag my knowledge of a candidate that lived in the
northern reaches of the kingdom was probably very limited and my polling
would reflect that deficiency.  trying to define how much "weight" can be
assigned to someones polling based on location or the size of their stable
isnt feasible nor does it make much sense.

regards
logan

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-----Original Message-----
From: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Becky
McEllistrem
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 6:18 AM
To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [MR] Marshal Questions

Here's an interesting follow up question that came up during a group
conversation online last night.  


Should knights (and perhaps all peers) be required to have associates in
order for their opinion to be considered valid on a polling?


IE you have no associates?  Then you may discuss candidates for an order but
your polling is invalid or carries half the weight of the pollings from
those that do have associates.

Don't know of kingdom or society law would have to change for that to happen
which is the direction most of the discussion took most of the time.

A side tangent to that was - do you live in kingdom?  No then your polling
is half the weight of those that do live in kingdom.

Doubt any serious change in this direction would ever happen but it was an
interesting subject I'd never thought about before.

Rebecca
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