Simple Principles of Fairness

The 2 most important fairness principles in my mind are:
- that eligibility requirements should be largely similar
- one should not have to pay membership fees to join an association for whom he/she would not have to join otherwise to carry out his/her profession in the industry

The current system fails both of these principles.

What is worse is that because of the discrepancy in eligibility requirements, a structural inequity is inevitably created, providing unfair bias for candidates affiliated with lower barrier membership groups. Whereas a low-barrier organization can potentially wield undue influence by "accrediting" its members to be eligible voters.