While I'm all for accountability, I do think the morphing of this discussion from "private voting" to "HoW dO wE kNoW tHe ElEcTiOn CoMmIsIon IsN't RiGgInG tHe ElEcTiOn?" a bit problematic. Especially because those who has been acting as election commissioners (a) didn't ask for this amendment, (b) have been arguing against the change, and © are among the most trusted members in the region.

Further, while I'm remiss to help this amendment along because I don't think this is especially needed and will be voting against it, the way would you fix this problem is to make sure there are multiple election commissioners.

At one point in the not distant past, we had three commissioners: two legislators and one forum administrator. The goal was to not allow one person all the power here. The problems became that (a) there's not much for two of the three people to do and (b) being on the commission precluded those members running for office. Ultimately, all the responsibility fell to one person which is why we moved to the current system. 

Having a commission from CRS members might be doable atm given the amount of CRS members we have *and* — at the risk of putting my foot in the mouth — the amount of members who don't seem interesting in running for office again.