I'm actually not particularly convinced that publicizing the list of names would narrow the candidate pool particularly, but it does seem to me that by making electioneering a more pressing piece of the process (there's electioneering now, but it's not significant) and moving the process closer to voting by having done so, there would be a fundamental shift in the ethos of the organization. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but I do think it's a decision that should be made deliberately rather than having it accidentally fall out of the solution to some other problem.
Melinda
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