[Lnc-business] Policy Manual 1.04 -Email Ballots

[Craig Bowden]

Clarity on this, as I read it, is simple:
Keep the ballot thread clean, just votes.
Have a separate thread that has debates on the motion.

So

I vote yes/no/abstain because [insert reasoning] would be a no go. But 
if a separate thread were addressing the discussion, it would work just 
fine.

So just as we title the ballot that it is an electronic ballot, we have 
a similar styling for debate on the issue.

Craig Bowden
Region 1 Alternate

On 2018-08-01 18:27, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business wrote:
> I believe we may have been doing something incorrectly as per our
> special rules.  Specifically:
> 
> Section 1.04 ELECTRONIC MAIL BALLOT PROCEDURES
> 
> 1) Electronic Mail Ballots 30 Electronic mail ballots shall not
> include an accompanying argument for or against passage of the motion.
> Notification of an electronic mail ballot shall be made by the
> Secretary by electronic mail. An LNC Member may change his or her vote
> on an electronic mail ballot, provided that the change is received by
> the Secretary by the deadline for return of ballots.
> 
> Because when I was first elected debate was permitted in the threads I
> always interpreted this to mean that the ballot, i.e. the post by the
> Secretary, should not include any argument.  But I see that in the
> past, this was not the case but was interpreted to mean no debate at
> all by anyone.
> 
> I think we need clarity on this.
> 
> Personally - I am opposed to not having debate on the email thread - I
> think it provides better results, but I think we may be violating our
> rules and that we either need to cease allowing debate or modify our
> Policy Manual.
> 
> -Caryn Ann