[Lnc-business] LNC meeting report from the Convention Voting Process Committee

[Joe Bishop-Henchman]

CONVENTION VOTING PROCESS COMMITTEE
Report submitted by Joe Bishop-Henchman

The committee was established by the LNC to examine and make 
recommendations to improve the voting methods and processes used at our 
national conventions. It consists of nine Party members along with the 
LNC Chair and LNC Secretary as ex officio non-voting members.

On March 29, LNC Chair Sarwark named Joe Bishop-Henchman as interim 
chair.

On July 11, the Committee held its first organizing meeting by 
Zoom/conference call. All members but Mr. Dixon were present, and also 
attending were several party members who were observing. Each member 
shared their background in the Party and goals for the committee. 
Several items came up over and over: counting hands and ballots takes 
too long, there are too many errors in how we tabulate, white index 
cards as ballots is not reassuring, we will have constraints with 
security concerns and Bylaws and budget, the value of a Plan A and a 
Plan B, and generally that doing nothing is unacceptable.

The committee elected Joe Bishop-Henchman as committee chair and Caryn 
Ann Harlos as committee secretary.

The next two major tasks of the committee will be:
First, one or more sessions learning all we can about how convention 
elections currently occur, warts and all. I welcome input as to 
individuals we ought to hear from. There was strong consensus to hear 
from Ms. Mattson early on, to learn from her on pain and error points in 
the current system.

Second, once the problem is fully understood, brainstorming a range of 
potential solutions.

I ask for LP staff's assistance setting up an email list for the members 
of the committee, if one exists access to a Party Zoom account (I used a 
temporary one for my service as interim chair), and ability to contact 
members for surveys should we desire to.

Respectfully submitted,
Joe Bishop-Henchman

JBH

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Joe Bishop-Henchman
LNC Member (At-Large)
joe.bishop-henchman at lp.org
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