[Lnc-business] REQUEST FOR CO-SPONSORS APPEAL FROM RULING OF THE CHAIR - BALLOT 190203-1 Immigration Resolution

[Whitney Bilyeu]

I will also co-sponsor.

It is my experience that an express abstention is the member's choice to
not vote for either of the choices...it indicates they made a choice to not
choose, but it counts in the total present to vote. All this time, I have
operated under this, and when I want to leave room for my alternate to
vote, I stay silent on the ballot, allowing my alternate to cast a vote in
my stead. If I want to be sure an abstention is recorded for my region, I
expressly abstain - filling up the space where a vote goes. If the
procedural understanding changes now, I would question previous results
where abstentions were expressed.

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 8:52 PM Sam Goldstein via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> I will co-sponsor based on precedent that an Alternate's vote is not
> counted except in the absence of the representative.  In this case
> Mr. O'Donnell was present for the vote and abstained so Mr. Lyon's vote
> should not have been counted.  If Mr. O'Donnell had not made his
> presence know then Mr. Lyon's vote would have been counted for his
> Region.
>
> ---
> Sam Goldstein
> Libertarian National Committee
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> On 2019-02-12 20:27, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business wrote:
> > In the email ballot for the above resolution, the Chair ruled that
> > alternate Lyons' vote would count despite the prior (and unwithdrawn)
> > express abstention of the Mr. O'Donnell.
> >
> > The Secretary appealed the ruling of the chair and was joined by
> > Longstreth
> > and Mattson.  I ask that others co-sponsor.
> >
> > If there are four co-sponsors, absent contrary instructions from the
> > Chair,
> > I will open an email ballot for the appeal.
> >
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*Whitney Bilyeu*
Libertarian National Committee
Region 7 Representative
281.433.4966