[Lnc-business] Questions to the Chair - Convention Voting Process Committee and Membership Committee votes

[Alicia Mattson]

It does not matter for purposes of these elections, but since the 2016 NOTA
subject was referenced, I do want to distinguish that situation.  NOTA was
not nominated in that election.  Nominated candidates are pre-printed on
the state tally sheets.  Our convention rules do not say that NOTA shall be
automatically printed on the state tally sheets.  Our free-form-entry
ballots easily allow write-ins, and our rules merely say that if someone
does vote for NOTA, though it is an otherwise ineligible candidate, it is
valid and will be handled in a particular way.  If NOTA is not pre-printed
on the state tally sheet at convention, it in no way precludes a delegate
from voting for NOTA because it can be written in.  I also did not
pre-print the thousands of other write-in options on the tally sheets, yet
delegates were able to write-in other candidates as they pleased.

In the current vote in question, OpaVote did not allow me to write-in
another candidate.

-Alicia



On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:18 AM Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> The test of our using the OpaVote system for a real election is done, and I
> think fantastically useful revealing some easy pitfalls to avoid in any
> future runs.
>
> Before I release the results, I need direction from the chair.
>
> 1.  A name was inadvertently not included on the ballot.  Ms. Mattson voted
> for that applicant and I do not know if anyone else would have, but for the
> inadvertance, and I am not sure that is the key question as I remember how
> upset I got at the 2016 convention when NOTA was left off of a ballot even
> though I had no intention of voting NOTA in that race.
>
> 2. The ballot instructions were to pick up to nine.  That was not
> explicitly spelled out in the enabling motion but was my interpretation of
> it in light of my intent in making it and the well over a handful of
> committees we had just populated in which we limited the choices.
>
> Depending on the chair's guidance on these two issues, it is relatively
> trivial to correct.
>
>
>    - I can re-enter all the current ballots but use Ms. Mattson's
>    identified one including that excluded member.
>    - We can ask any member if they wish to add additional choices to go
>    beyond nine (and include that excluded member if they wish) and I
> re-enter.
>    - We can restart on a fresh ballot with lessons learned and ask everyone
>    to voluntarily get their votes in early.
>
>
> Please let me know.
>
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