[Lnc-business] Policy Manual Amendment - Electronic Mail Ballots

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

Yay!  Thank you for listening in!  Please do mention that the lady in
question said she would not do that but it is an issue in our procedures.

-Caryn Ann

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 4:45 PM Tim Hagan via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> I request ten minutes on the agenda to amend the Electronic Mail Ballots
> section of the Policy Manual. Someone on a YouTube channel realized
> something was lacking in the Policy Manual. Won't say who she was, but
> it looked like both co-hosts had huge binders they were going through.
> Neither the Policy Manual nor the Bylaws give a time limit when the
> Secretary must post an electronic mail ballot. It's technically possible
> for a Secretary to pocket veto a ballot by never submitting it to the
> LNC list. This wording is, of course, open for wordsmithing.
>
> Amend Section 1.04, subsection 1) Electronic Mail Ballots, by appending
> the first sentence with:
>
> within three (3) days of the question being submitted by the chair or
> cosponsored by a sufficient number of LNC members.
>
> The sentence would then read:
>
> Notification of an electronic mail ballot shall be made by the Secretary
> by electronic mail within three (3) days of the question being submitted
> by the chair or cosponsored by a sufficient number of LNC members.
>
> --
> Tim Hagan
> Treasurer, Libertarian National Committee
>
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