[Lnc-business] Secretary's Report

[Alicia Mattson]

The following comments relate to version 2 of the secretary's report for
the March 9-10 meeting.


PAGE 7, APPENDIX A, MSC ELECTION

-  says the voting method was Scottish “RCV” instead of “STV”

-  At the top it says there were 12 votes, but the OpaVote results sent to
us had 13 votes.  This table is missing John Phillips’ ballot.  By the time
you include the Hagan and Goldstein votes as well as the missing Phillips
vote, there were 15 votes cast, but only 13 were tallied in OpaVote.

-  My #8 ranking was Johnny Walker, but this appendix reports it as
Kristopher Thomas

-  Mr. Nekhaila's #10 ranking was James Olivi, but this appendix reports it
as Francisco Olvera

-  It looks like Mr. Nekhaila’s ballot was entered in both his and Mr.
Sarwark’s columns, and Mr. Sarwark's actual votes are not reflected in this
table.

-  The “s” is missing from the end of Mr. Phillips’ name in the column
header.


PAGE 8, APPENDIX B, CVPC ELECTION

-  At the top it says the voting method was Scottish STV, but it mistakenly
includes the limiting statement “pick up to nine”, which was not actually a
limitation on our votes, though the Secretary’s instructions said that it
was.  Several of us did not stop ranking at 9.  I suspect this comment is
also in the table in Appendix A but the entire contents of the cell are not
displayed.

-  At the top it says there were 14 votes, but this table only contains 13
votes.  Steve Nekhaila’s votes, like Hagan and Goldstein, were not posted
to the email list but the data was in OpaVote.  After you add those details
in, there were 16 votes cast but only 14 were tallied in OpaVote

-  This table says I ranked Michael Nelson #20, but I actually ranked him
as #10.

-  This table shows that Mr. Smith’s ballot ranked two candidates (Lazerow
and Robinson) both as #9.  Robinson should be #8, and Lazerow should be #9.


APPLIES TO BOTH APPENDICES A AND B

-  RONR p. 427, in preferential voting, “The tellers' report consists of a
table listing all candidates or propositions, with the number of ballots
that were in each pile after each successive distribution.”  These
appendices only show the final listing of people declared elected, but not
the vote allocations for each round in the process.

-  There is no reference from the email ballot listings above to this
appendix for the reader to even know it exists.  You're just counting on
them continuing to scroll down beyond the listing of email ballots.

-  It is not clear to the reader whether the votes were cast by the
regional rep or by their alternate.  I have figured out that you use
underline notation to indicate which of the two cast that vote, but a
future reader will have no idea.  I suggest only listing the name of the
person who cast the vote, and not list the names of the alternates in the
column headers.

-  These tables show the votes that Lark and Smith posted to the list but
that did not appear in OpaVote, but there is no mention that the OpaVote
results do not actually include their ballots in the tally.  If a future
reader is attempting to duplicate the OpaVote tally, they'll have trouble.


APPENDIX C

This has 2 separate emails from me about Scottish STV merged as though they
were a single message.  At the end of the first message I wrote, “More
specifics later…”  and then later posted a second message.  Merging them
into a single narrative makes me seem confused because parts of the second
message had realizations contradictory to the first message, and that makes
more sense if they were, in fact, separate messages.

-Alicia



On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:23 PM Caryn Ann Harlos <caryn.ann.harlos at lp.org>
wrote:

> Ms. Mattson I was just preparing a supplement regarding the IT committee.
> I will include a pdf of the data from the link to those two ballots in the
> event those e-Files no longer exist.
>
> And yes version 7 is before JBH’s and my agreement which is to be included
> in my supplement.
>
> Docs to be sent later this evening or first thing am.
>
> I am also uploading everyone’s reports to the OneNote (some already done -
> had an affiliate and bylaws meeting in the middle so will be back to it).
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 8:51 PM Alicia Mattson via Lnc-business <
> lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
>
>> Comments on the Secretary's report which we received four days ago:
>>
>> Status of Minutes Since Last Report  -  The date on the first set of
>> minutes listed should be December 1-2, rather than December 9-10.
>>
>> Motions  -  The first motion listed is, “Move to approve the draft
>> minutes,
>> version 7, for the December 1-2, 2018 LNC meeting.”  I believe that
>> version
>> 7 is before whatever changes you’re making from Mr. Bishop-Henchman’s
>> request.  Also, version 7 still indicates in the motion regarding election
>> method for the MSC and CVPC that it would be Scottish “STV3”.  I don’t
>> know
>> what the “3” variant is, but the motion made at the meeting was for just
>> “STV”, and the OpaVote site which was used for tabulation doesn’t use a
>> “3”
>> in the naming.
>>
>> Motions  -  The second motion listed is, “Move to approve the draft
>> minutes, version 1, for the January 6, 2019 LNC special meeting.”  The
>> previous page reports that the January 6 minutes have already been
>> approved.  I believe that you instead mean to ask for approval of the
>> February 19, 2019 ExComm minutes.
>>
>> Committee Membership Changes Since December Meeting  -  Shortly after you
>> sent the first version of the secretary’s report, the chair sent an email
>> informing us of his appointments to IT Committee.  This detail could be
>> updated now, and the issue could now be removed from “Committee
>> Appointments Remaining” section.
>>
>> Email Ballots  -  For ballots 190214-1 and 190214-2, our rules call for
>> the
>> roll call votes to be documented in the minutes.  The current draft just
>> has a link to an online source of the details, but if that file is ever
>> removed from that location, the info will be lost, rather than being
>> retained in the minutes.
>>
>> -Alicia
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 7:30 AM Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business <
>> lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Please see attached.
>> >
>> > I will be getting everyone's reports submitted thus far into the OneNote
>> > notebook over the next few days.
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > *  In Liberty,*
>> >
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>> > Caryn.Ann.
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> *  In Liberty,*
>
> *Libertarian Party and Libertarian National Committee Secretary *- Caryn.Ann.
> Harlos at LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org> or Secretary at LP.org.
> *Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee* - LPedia at LP.org
> Call me at 561.523.2250 and follow my public figure page at
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> Peaceful Commerce With All Nations * Non-interventionism * Re-Legalize All
> Drugs * End Government Intrusion In The Bedroom * Repeal All Gun Laws *
> Abolish All Taxation * Sound, Free-market Money * Abolish The Fed * End
> Corporate & Individual Welfare * Abolish The IRS and Repeal the Income Tax
> * Privatize Transportation Infrastructure * Free-market Emergency Services
> * Open Migration * Transfer Government Schools To The Private Sector *
> Eliminate Regulation *
>
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