This morning I received the list of people who send in their application for a position in the AIDA Executive committee. Too my surprise there were actually a lot of names and even some names that I didn’t expect, but are very good to see on the list again.

PRESIDENT:

• Panos Lianos, GRE
• Bill Stromberg, SWE
• Kimmo Lahtinen, FIN

VICE PRESIDENT:

• Hanli Prinsloo, RSA
• Grant W Graves, USA
• Yuzov Vladimir, UKR
• Susan Kluytmans, NED
• Robert King, USA

SECRETARY:

• Pia Jerabek, SUI

SPORT OFFICER:

• Pim Vermeulen, NED
• Susan Kluytmans, NED
• Bill Stromberg, SWE
• Miguèl Vannieuwenhoven, SUI

TECHNICAL OFFICER:

• Grégory Piazzola, FRA
• Pim Vermeulen, NED
• Bill Stromberg, SWE

EDUCATION OFFICER:

• Stavros Kastrinakis, GRE

MEDICAL AND SCIENCE OFFICER:

• Dr. John R. Fitz-Clark, CAN
• Dr. Ralph Potkin, USA
• Dr. Panagiota Balanou, GRE

MEDIA AND PR OFFICER:

• Sebastian Naslund, SWE
• Hanli Prinsloo, RSA

TREASURER:

• Sebastien Nagel, SUI (???)

Now the voting can start! Or maybe not? As I understand from Bill Stromberg it could take several rounds to determine who will be voted for. If you have 5 persons for a job, you first have to eliminate the best of the rest by another vote so that the best two are left in the final vote so that all votes are equally distributed.

For example: if you have 3 candidates for the president function and two of them share more likely the same vision and ideas which are most liked by the Assembly. It could mean that person one receives 10 votes and person 2 as well. The not in favorite candidate could receive 11 votes. And while the both the favorites receive a total of 20 votes for them in total, the not in favorite person will win.

What a monstrous way of voting! I don’t remember that politics are using these kind of voting systems at all. Only if they are from the same party and they have to put in front their main candidate there is a pre-election within the party. This way it could still take some weeks and maybe months before the final new AIDA board is elected. Too much hassle and too little time. Just send out the complete voting list to the assembly and let them vote.

It would be nice if the AIDA interim executive board could publish all the publications from the candidates so that members of AIDA could see what their plans and visions are before electing them only on their name, face and freediving performances…