Hello Ben,
Again it is quite interesting. Having read Terry's Letter in the Telegraph he claims he voted in 1994 and 1996. So a follow up to your "what has changed?" question might be when did it change?
A follow up to that would be has Terry been recieving Annual Reports and Concise reports since 1996? If you are a life member, perpetual member or standard member (voting or non) you recieve these things and your name is in the Annual report.
Now I can only go back to 2002. As that is the latest PDRLC Annual Report I could get my hands on, but Terry's name is not in that report. So if we take it from Terry's last supposed voting, in 1996, thats up to 12 years as a non member.
I guess they way it seems to me, someone that didn't automaticly get membership of this club through playing for it, someone that had to find 2 voting members in 1998, someone that has maintained their membership for the last 10 years, that Terry may have taken his membership a little for granted, and then all of a sudden when he wants to run, he can't because of this issue.