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Shouldn’t it be more useful to promote this forum rather than letting decisions up to people who apparently weren’t interested enough to join off-site? I get the drive for more people, and the on-site crew has done a great job, but I do think some decisions still need to be left to off-site Shareholders. I also think that perhaps you need to promote the off-site forum much more on-site than the current level, if you are dissatisfied with the amount of people/outreach to those people.

This is a fair concern to bring up. I would like to spend time talking to people about joining the forums more; however, I think being able to have a more interactive experience on-site may help motivate people to later join the forums, even if they're not ready now. This method has worked well in other regions like The South Pacific and has at least not hurt the usage of the forums there.
 

Would the Speaker be responsible for carrying out the elections?

As explained in the dispatch, the Managing Director would preside over elections. The LazCorp Development Team is merely a Cabinet program, not related to the Assembly or Speaker (beyond that Developers can be removed by the Assembly as an extra security net if this goes south).