[Lnc-business] Policy Manual 1.04 -Email Ballots

[brent.olsen at lp.org]

That makes sense.  Perhaps it is time for a policy update?

In Liberty,
K. Brent Olsen
Alternate, Region 4

On 2018-08-02 00:09, Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business wrote:
> Before there were electronic mail ballots, there were mail ballots --
> as in USPS, snail-mail ballots.  This policy was written for a
> scenario when the Secretary might need to put a stamp on an envelope
> and send a piece of mail to each LNC member.  In that situation, the
> piece of mail that was sent was not to include arguments for/against
> the motion.  There was nothing to preclude members from phoning each
> other, or emailing each other as more LNC members got email accounts,
> to argue for or against a motion.
> 
> Whenever email ballots came along, the policy just slapped
> "electronic" into the existing wording as an easy fix, though it
> doesn't really have the same impact in the age of email.
> 
> The parallel application is just that when the Secretary sends out the
> email which starts the process, that email message should not contain
> debate.
> 
> -Alicia
> 
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business
> <lnc-business at hq.lp.org> 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
>> 
>> --
>> In Liberty,
>> Caryn Ann Harlos
>> Libertarian Party and Libertarian National Committee Secretary -
>> Caryn.Ann. Harlos at LP.org or Secretary at LP.org.
>> Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee - LPedia at LP.org
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