[Lnc-business] Email ballot on changing membership in policy manual

[Geoffrey Neale]

Madame Secretary:

 

The Bylaws specify:

 

Article 8: 

 

10. The National Committee may, without meeting together, transact business
by electronic mail.  The Secretary shall send out electronic mail ballots on
any question submitted by the Chair or cosponsored by at least 1/5 of the
members of the Committee.  The period for voting on a question shall remain
open for ten days, unless all members have cast votes, or have stated an
intention to abstain, by electronic mail to the Secretary.  Votes from
alternate regional representatives will be counted, in accordance with the
ranking procedure of the region, only if the regional representative fails
to respond to the ballot.  The number of votes required for passage of any
motion shall be the same as that required during a meeting.  The Secretary
shall preserve all such votes until the next meeting of the National
Committee, at which meeting the Committee shall order the disposition of
such votes.

 

14. The National Committee shall use roll call voting on all substantive
motions. Additionally, the National Committee must have a roll call vote
upon request of any single Committee member present on any motion.  On all
roll call votes, the vote of each individual Committee member shall be
recorded in the minutes.

 

15. The Secretary or a designee shall promptly post notice for each session
of the National Committee; any National Committee proposed agendas; and
approved minutes of each Convention and open National Committee session to a
permanent archive section on the Party's website.  Any person may record the
National Committee's proceedings while in open session, or subscribe to a
read-only email list on which LNC votes are recorded.

 

While I understand you are looking for a more efficient method of voting
between meetings, by my reading and ruling on the Bylaws, e-mail balloting
is the ONLY option open to us, and I therefore am directing you to reissue
the mail ballot directing the LNC to post their votes to the
lnc-business at lp.org list.  We are required to disclose all of our votes, and
the lnc-business is the "read only email list" mandated in the Bylaws. It is
my ruling that individual votes sent to this list meet the requirement for
roll call voting, but votes sent ONLY to the Secretary, or to lnc-discuss do
not.  Therefore, any vote not sent to lnc-business will be considered
"spoiled", and will not be counted.

 

Additionally, it is vital that any votes we take be fully, directly and
contemporaneously disclosed, and that the disclosure be in a manner and
procedure that we control.  That method is lnc-business.

 

Thank you.

 

Geoffrey Neale

Chair, Libertarian Party

 

 

From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Ruth
Bennett
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 11:06 PM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Subject: [Lnc-business] Email ballot on changing membership in policy manual

 

Here is the link to the Dropbox shared file for voting on this ballot.  I
had some difficulties using the lnc-business email address, hence sent it
out to your individual emails.  Please vote just once and DO NOT SEND ME
YOUR VOTES.  Please vote at this site.  Thank you. - Ruth

The ballot ends 10 days from today, so on DEC 30, 2012 at midnight EST.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lca0dm270grddrq/BmZuJ6Yjsz


Motion to amend Policy Manual Section II.5 MEMBERSHIP POLICIES such that the
three statements "Until Jan 1, 2013" are replaced by "Until July 1, 2013",
and the three statements "Effective Jan 1, 2013" are replaced by "Effective
July 1, 2013.

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