These questions are for both tickets rather than individual candidates.

So for those of us who look at the master roster on a regular basis, a certain trend has been noticed that I think relates to parts of the platforms for both tickets. Specifically, a trend has been noticed regarding the concentration of DHs into a relatively small amount of the total membership.

Here are the numbers for the main fleets (depending on whether you include or don’t include alt-RPGs). For ‘active membership’ I have used 105, which is the earlier approximately 110 figure we heard about earlier in this election less the number of active cadets who aren’t allowed to be a DH):

Stats not including Alt-RPGs

• Total available DH positions: 64 (61% of the active membership could be a DH)
• Total filled DH position: 61
• Total number of members who hold a DH position: 38 (36% of the active membership)
• Number of DH positions filled by someone who holds more than one DH spot: 35 (57% of all filled DH positions)
• Average number of DH positions held by an STF active member: 0.6
• Average number of DH positions held by current active DH: 1.6

Stats including alt-RPGs (except OED V)

• Total available DH positions: 88 (84% of the active membership could be a DH)
• Total filled DH position: 85
• Total number of members who hold a DH position: 44 (42% of the active membership)
• Number of DH positions filled by someone who holds more than one DH spot: 60 (71% of all filled DH positions)
• Average number of DH positions held by an STF active member: 0.8
• Average number of DH positions held by current active DH: 1.9

With those numbers in mind, here are my questions:

1) Does your ticket believe the concentration of DHs into the number of members reflected above is a problem? If so, why? If not, why not?

2) If you believe it is a problem, is this something your ticket will be looking into if you are elected?

3) Keeping in mind this is just the Election Ship, and approaches and solutions may develop as a term goes on, at this preliminary stage do you have any thoughts about how the problem might be addressed (if your ticket thinks it is a problem)? Would this be in the form of a club discussion, a cabinet discussion, helpful tips, guidelines, or even a potential bylaw amendment? (I promise I won’t hold you to this if you are elected! This is just a preliminary thought your ticket might have :) )

Thank you in advance for your consideration of these questions.

Daniel Lerner