[Lnc-business] states eligible to appoint to 2018 Platform Committee

[Alicia Mattson]

As Sam already cited (he gets a brownie point) the bylaws prescribe that
the Platform Committee is comprised of:


   1. One member by each of the five affiliate parties having the greatest
      per capita sustaining membership as determined for Convention delegate
      allocations at the most recent Regular Convention.
      2. One member by each of the ten affiliate parties having the largest
      sustaining memberships, excluding those affiliates from (a), as
determined
      for Convention delegate allocations at the most recent Regular Convention.
      3. Five members selected by the National Committee.

The cutoff date for determining delegate allocations for the most recent
regular convention (2016) was 10/31/15, however you can't just use the data
that Robert sends in the monthly membership reports.  It's close, but not
complete.  It is a snapshot on that day.  However, Bylaws Article 10.4.a
says that any sustaining membership donations postmarked by that date also
count towards these allocations.  When that date arrives, Robert hits the
proverbial pause button and processes only items postmarked by that date
until we have received them all, sends me the updated data specifically for
this calculation, and then resumes normal processing of the mail.

The population figures used for the per capita calculations come from the
2010 census.

The top five per capita states which get to appoint for 2018 are:

1 - New Hampshire
2 - Alaska
3 - Colorado
4 - Nevada
5 - Virginia

The top ten ranked by sustaining membership excludes those affiliates
included in the top-five-per-capita ranking.  Both Colorado and Virginia
qualify by either ranking method this time, so that means the 11th and 12th
ranked by sustaining membership get pulled into the top ten list for 2018
as follows:

1 - California
2 - Texas
3 - Florida
4 - New York
5 - Ohio

6 - Virginia
7 - Pennsylvania
8 - Illinois

9 - Colorado
10 - Michigan
11 - Indiana
12 - Washington

This year the postmarked-by adjustments did not change the top-ten ranking
relative to what was published for 10/31/15, though I think there was a
rank shift for the prior convention due to that factor.

After the LNC makes the appointment of an interim chair for the committee,
I contact the chairs of the affiliates entitled to make appointments and
provide them all the details such as the appointment deadline, who they
should notify when the appointment is made, dates of the convention, etc.

-Alicia
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