[Lnc-business] more JudComm data

Elizabeth Van Horn elizabeth.vanhorn at lp.org
Mon Jul 16 20:05:26 EDT 2018


Thank you Alicia!

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Elizabeth Van Horn


On 2018-07-16 19:54, Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business wrote:
> Attached is the state-by-state breakdown of the Judicial Committee
>    results which were announced late at night on July 3.
>    I imagined that since I am not a candidate in this race, I could 
> wait a
>    bit longer until I had time to do an audit of this data, as I did 
> with
>    the At-Large data, before publishing it.  That way any numbers 
> recorded
>    here which do not match a state chair's recollection of what they
>    turned in could be explained before the question even needed to be
>    asked.
>    As always, the convention secretary has a long to-do list following 
> the
>    convention.  There were pending deadlines that I wanted to make on
>    other subjects, so after I published more detailed At-Large info, I
>    didn't take up the JudComm audit yet.  The At-Large project took me
>    large portions of three days to complete, and I couldn't put off
>    certain other projects that long to do JudComm right then.
>    The LNC was already undertaking an email ballot to "recognize" the
>    top-7 finishers anyway.  Now we know that motion did not pass, 
> mostly
>    due to concerns that it would be a rule violation, but now it seems
>    that the top-7 finishers are just declaring themselves to be the
>    Judicial Committee, though they did not meet the thresholds to be
>    elected.
>    The LNC now has an email ballot for an independent audit of the
>    Judicial Committee results.
>    I dunno.  I'm just going to go ahead and put this out, even though I
>    haven't had time to audit it yet.
>    The JudComm tally happened without the intense time pressures under
>    which the At-Large tally happened.  I am HOPING that means fewer 
> errors
>    were made in the tally, but we shall see.  We were all very tired by
>    that point, so that could prove to have been as big a challenge as 
> the
>    time pressures were.  None of the participants in the tally were
>    JudComm candidates.
>    I intend to conduct an audit of this data anyway, regardless of 
> whether
>    the LNC motion for an audit passes.  I am not one of the candidates 
> for
>    Judicial Committee.  I still have other things that should be done
>    first, but I think I can probably get to it within the next two 
> weeks.
>    Just know that if questions arise, the answers will have to wait 
> until
>    I can audit this.
>    There's just so much activity about this subject that I'll go ahead 
> and
>    put this out, for what it's worth.
>    -Alicia



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