[Lnc-business] my audit of LNC At-Large election

[Sam Goldstein]

I thought the implication was that all individual ballot cards would be 
audited, not just
the tally sheets.  That concern prompted one of my questions.

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Sam Goldstein
Libertarian National Committee
317-850-0726 Cell

On 2018-07-12 03:38, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business wrote:
> Thank you.  I will alert the people who have been asking for them.
>    This also answers Sam's questions as to how the sheets could be
>    transmitted - it is technologically trivial to scan them.
> 
>    On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 1:17 AM, Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business
>    <[1]lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
> 
>         The At-Large tallies were made under the immense time pressures
>      of the
>         tail end of the convention, and as in past years, it is not
>      surprising
>         for a post-convention audit to find errors that were not caught
>      onsite.
>         For your reading pleasure, you can review the appendices of the
>      minutes
>         of the previous two conventions for my analyses of those  human
>      errors,
>         which take place even though people are acting in good faith.
>         None of the errors revealed by my audit of this year's At-Large
>      race
>         change the outcome. The top 5 people on July 3 remain the top 5
>         post-audit.
>         The largest single discrepancy was that the Colorado delegation
>      tally
>         sheet under-reported Joe Buchman by 5 votes.  His relative
>      ranking did
>         not change, though.
>         Attached is an Excel workbook with three sheets (or tabs):
>           * The first contains the state-by-state breakdown that
>      represents the
>             tallies exactly as released onsite on July 3.  You'll 
> notice
>      that
>             some cells are color-coded, and that's an indicator for you
>      to find
>             the related note at the bottom of that first tab to answer 
> a
>             potential question about that number. Each color has its 
> own
>             section of notes, with a header that explains the color
>      grouping.
>             White, green and yellow cells include values that did not
>      change in
>             the audited results.  The pink cells did change in the
>      audited
>             results for the reasons noted.
>           * The second tab contains the audited results, updated to
>      factor in
>             the issues in the pink cells.
>           * The third tab contains a comparison of the candidate 
> rankings
>             reported onsite on July 3 with the rankings for the audited
>             results. The variances are minor and do not change the top 
> 5
>             finishers.
>         Also attached are the delegation tally sheets for comparison 
> with
>      the
>         details in the spreadsheet.  There are 50 sheets, rather than
>      51.  Not
>         present is the Wyoming sheet.  I don't know why that blank page
>      didn't
>         make it back into my collection, but Wyoming did not vote in 
> any
>      of the
>         elections, and you can see from the attached spreadsheet that 
> at
>      the
>         time of this vote they had 0 delegates credentialed.
>         The Mattson/Scheetz/Hayes cluster of candidates seems to be
>      attracting
>         the most interest, and the colored cells for that cluster of
>      candidates
>         involve the CA and TX ballots.  These are the two largest
>      delegations,
>         and they had the largest tallying task, which just gives more
>         opportunities for human error.  Immediately after sending this
>      message,
>         I'll follow up with another email which has the individual
>      ballots from
>         CA and TX attached for your tallying pleasure.  The size of the
>      scanned
>         files warrants two separate emails, else I'd include them here.
>      I
>         scanned in full color at 300 dpi so you can see them in all 
> their
>         glory.
>         -Alicia
> 
>    --
>    --
>    In Liberty,
>    Caryn Ann Harlos
>    Libertarian Party and Libertarian National Committee Secretary
>    - [2]Caryn.Ann. Harlos at LP.org or Secretary at LP.org.
>    Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee - LPedia at LP.org
>    A haiku to the Statement of Principles:
>    We defend your rights
>    And oppose the use of force
>    Taxation is theft
> 
> References
> 
>    1. mailto:lnc-business at hq.lp.org
>    2. mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org