RVC Replacement

Some people advocate having proper special elections for RVC replacement, and using the Bulletin as the vehicle for the process.

Let's suppose RVC 11 quits today. The deadline is past, but with effort, the call for candidates gets put into the Aug Bulletin. Candidates raise their hands and get listed in the Oct Bulletin (having missed the deadline for the Sept issue).Let's shorten voting for 6 weeks to only 3, add a week of counting and triple validating, and the new RVC 11 starts Nov 1.

Nearly 4 months and only one AMC meeting, in the best scenario.

If RVC 11 waits until mid-Aug to quit, the call for candidates goes into the October Bulletin, ballots into the Nov/Dec, vote validation complete by mid January. Region 11 will have had no voting representation at 2 AMC meetings.

As I see it, there are two issues to consider: Making sure there is someone knowledgeable and able to advise Local Groups and ensuring that the collective opinion of the region is voiced at the board meetings. It is quick and easy to appoint someone to be a regional advisor. It is quick and easy to appoint someone to poll a region's members and ferry their thoughts to the board meetings. It is not so quick and easy to replace a voting member of the board. 

So my question is this: Are RVCs like delegates of the Electoral College, without whom a segment of the membership is uncounted? Do RVCs objectively poll their entire membership and voting accordingly for every motion?