[Lnc-business] Token Time - some practical considerations

[Alicia Mattson]

I already have the token artwork loaded in a virtual shopping cart on the
vendor's website, ready to order.  I was holding out for a couple of days
only to see if I could luck into a sale price to save us a few bucks.  Now
there are several different motion proposals that leave me in a very
inconvenient limbo.

One proposal would specify that I must include certain things on the
tokens, including some specific provision for NOTA.  With the design
already sitting in the shopping cart, the tokens contain a large blank in
which the delegate writes the name of a candidate.  Dictating anything else
will require me to re-design for no good reason, especially since nothing
prevents them from writing "NOTA", or the name of a non-candidate, or
drawing a picture instead.

Some propose that we do petitions instead of tokens, maybe with no
restrictions on who is even eligible to sign, with one person able to sign
multiple petitions.  Even if we say only delegates can sign, I don't know
how we would validate such petitions in a timely fashion.  Sadly, even in a
party which opposes fraud, we do have delegates who will cheat the system
if they think they can get away with it, so some consideration of process
integrity is needed.  With tokens, at least we know that only delegates get
them, and they are traceable to that delegate if any questions arise.  If
the LNC is going to dictate at the last minute that we will use petitions
instead, then I shouldn't incur the cost to order the debate tokens at all,
only the platform tokens.

We are currently 27 days before on-site registration, when the tokens need
to be ready.  I don't have the luxury of waiting 10 days (or more if other
motions pop up later) to see how this all plays out before I finalize the
designs and hit the "order" button.  It takes time to get them printed,
time to ship them to me, time for me to stuff them into envelopes, and time
to get them shipped to New Orleans.  This is not the only task remaining on
my plate to prepare for the convention.

Just sayin...

-Alicia
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   I already have the token artwork loaded in a virtual shopping cart on
   the vendor's website, ready to order.  I was holding out for a couple
   of days only to see if I could luck into a sale price to save us a few
   bucks.  Now there are several different motion proposals that leave me
   in a very inconvenient limbo.
   One proposal would specify that I must include certain things on the
   tokens, including some specific provision for NOTA.  With the design
   already sitting in the shopping cart, the tokens contain a large blank
   in which the delegate writes the name of a candidate.  Dictating
   anything else will require me to re-design for no good reason,
   especially since nothing prevents them from writing "NOTA", or the name
   of a non-candidate, or drawing a picture instead.
   Some propose that we do petitions instead of tokens, maybe with no
   restrictions on who is even eligible to sign, with one person able to
   sign multiple petitions.  Even if we say only delegates can sign, I
   don't know how we would validate such petitions in a timely fashion.
   Sadly, even in a party which opposes fraud, we do have delegates who
   will cheat the system if they think they can get away with it, so some
   consideration of process integrity is needed.  With tokens, at least we
   know that only delegates get them, and they are traceable to that
   delegate if any questions arise.  If the LNC is going to dictate at the
   last minute that we will use petitions instead, then I shouldn't incur
   the cost to order the debate tokens at all, only the platform tokens.
   We are currently 27 days before on-site registration, when the tokens
   need to be ready.  I don't have the luxury of waiting 10 days (or more
   if other motions pop up later) to see how this all plays out before I
   finalize the designs and hit the "order" button.  It takes time to get
   them printed, time to ship them to me, time for me to stuff them into
   envelopes, and time to get them shipped to New Orleans.  This is not
   the only task remaining on my plate to prepare for the convention.
   Just sayin...
   -Alicia