[Lnc-business] At-Large and Judicial Committee results

[Craig Bowden]

Thank you for the clarification Ms. Mattson. Much appreciated.

On 2018-07-06 13:05, Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business wrote:
> The email list hadn't yet been updated when I sent the original message
>    below this one, so now that the new members are on it I will re-send
>    it.  I'm feeling more human now after a couple nights of normal 
> sleep.
>    I'm currently traveling with only sporadic internet access.  I'll
>    return to normal life by Monday.
>    To answer a few questions, yes, the ballots and tally sheets are
>    retained until the minutes are approved.  I've provided 
> state-by-state
>    breakdowns each year in the past, and I don't intend for this year 
> to
>    be different.  No, you won't have to wait for the draft minutes to 
> see
>    that, given that we didn't get to do that on-screen for the final 
> two
>    sets of results.  I will strive to get you data to review when I 
> return
>    home.
>    The tellers were double-checking the tally sheets as they came in 
> for
>    the At-Large.  When it was time to get the JudComm ballots started, 
> my
>    first inclination was that we'd just have to use what the state 
> chairs
>    turned in on the At-Large, but the tellers informed me that they 
> were
>    finding and correcting a large number of errors made by delegation
>    chairs on the tally sheets. Because of that, we prioritized the 
> process
>    of validating the numbers in the At-Large race over processing 
> JudComm
>    results. Tellers completed a full audit of the At-Large before the
>    state numbers were aggregated into results.
>    Following the post-convention LNC meeting, about 10 people in teams 
> of
>    2 helped audit the JudComm tally sheets and observed the data entry
>    process as the numbers were aggregated into results.  As with the
>    At-Large, this audit found and corrected a large number of errors 
> made
>    by delegation chairs on the tally sheets.  This extra effort was 
> made
>    on both races with the goal of getting the correct result.
>    I realize that a very close race makes people more concerned about
>    possible mistakes, but as I have documented in the appendices to 
> past
>    convention minutes, it is just as easy to make large errors as it is 
> to
>    make small ones.  A tight race isn't necessarily more susceptible to
>    mistaken results than a larger margin race.
>    We do the on-screen review precisely so we can try to catch errors
>    onsite.  I'll give you insight into what the causes of them were 
> during
>    the officer elections.  One of them was my data entry mistake.  The
>    remainder were mistakes by delegation chairs.  Some examples. One
>    delegation wrote a candidate's total on the wrong line of the tally
>    sheet.  One delegation, when a candidate had zero votes, instead of
>    leaving the line blank or writing a zero, they wrote a slash mark 
> that
>    was only slightly angled from vertical and it really looked like the
>    number 1, rather than an indicator of zero votes.
>    Gotta run for now.  It will be late tonight before I will have 
> internet
>    access again, but I wanted to send a quick note about what to 
> expect.
>    -Alicia
> 
>    On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:29 PM, Alicia Mattson
>    <[1]alicia.mattson at lp.org> wrote:
> 
>    I hope you all had safe travels home.  I'm looking forward to 
> catching
>    up on sleep very soon, as I'm sure the rest of you are.
>    I know many people took pictures of my computer screen with the 
> final
>    tallies for At-Large and Judicial Committee, so I presume it's on
>    social media, but for those of you who haven't seen it yet, see
>    attached.  The screen shots for the At-Large wouldn't have shown the
>    entire list, as it was longer than the screen.
>    I have a long to-do list following the convention (including but not
>    limited to minutes, update bylaws, update platform, provide more 
> detail
>    on regional formations, etc.).  I'll get it all taken care of in a
>    reasonable time frame, but it won't all happen instantly, and it 
> won't
>    be today.  Zzzzz...
>    By the way, the regional formations that I reported at the
>    post-convention LNC meeting, I had already confirmed onsite that 
> they
>    all met the required 10% threshold.  I see the Region 1 info in my
>    email, just to confirm receipt.
>    -Alicia
> 
> References
> 
>    1. mailto:alicia.mattson at lp.org