<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Voting has ended for the email ballot shown below:<br><br><u>Voting "aye":</u> Bilyeu, Bittner, Demarest, Goldstein, Hagan, Harlos, Hayes, Katz, Marsh, McKnight<br></div>
<br><div><u>Voting "nay":</u> (none)<br><br><u>Express Abstention:</u> Lark<br><br></div><div><u>Doubtful vote:</u> Redpath<br></div><div><br></div>
With a final vote tally of 10-0, the motion PASSES.<br><br></div>A couple of notes:<br><br></div><div>1) Under normal circumstances, I keep up with email better and will catch any stray votes cast in other threads. Recently I have been excessively busy and have not kept up with all my email traffic. If there are votes on this email ballot which were cast in other threads, just point them out to me, and I'll adjust these results. My schedule is starting to return to normal, so I expect to catch up over the next couple of weeks.<br></div><div><br></div><div>2) I listed Mr. Redpath's vote above as "doubtful". I don't like to be in the position of interpreting votes, so I ask people to clearly state their votes as affirmative or negative. His vote was the word "indubitably, which makes it a little ironic that I'm listing it as being doubtful, but the word itself is not inherently affirmative or negative. I strongly suspect he meant "indubitably yes", rather than "indubitably no", but I don't like to have to interpret. Had I been more available for email conversations at the time, I would have asked him to clarify before the end of the vote. Here's what RONR (11th ed., p. 416) says on the subject:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px">"Technical errors, like the misspelling of a word or name, do not make a vote illegal if the meaning of the ballot is clear. If the meaning of one or more ballots is doubtful, they can be treated as illegal if it is impossible for them to affect the result; but if they may affect the result, the tellers report them to the chair, who immediately submits to the assembly the question of how these ballots should be recorded. When reporting doubtful ballots, the tellers must be careful whenever possible not to show how the decision would affect any of the candidates."<br></div><br></div><div>There are circumstances in which I would object to someone getting to see the results before they get to specify what their otherwise unclear ballot really meant (ponder the last sentence of the RONR passage above). In this case, the result would not be affected either way, but it's a signed ballot so we know who cast it, and we all get to see the votes as they come in anyway. I could just leave this categorized as an illegal ballot since it doesn't affect the result, but under these particular circumstances I think I'd also be fine with merely having Mr. Redpath confirm his intent and recording it that way for the final record in the future minutes.<br></div><div><br></div>-Alicia<br><div><div><div><br></div><br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Alicia Mattson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agmattson@gmail.com" target="_blank">agmattson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>We have an electronic <span class="m_-5457803109323626743gmail-m_8269805191392754163gmail-m_-4807224822799193958gmail-m_-1141488058345208449m_-4082796757349072613gmail-m_5215252036485821826gmail-m_-2634892697165612292gmail-m_6324776411065130667gmail-m_1398300420053645662m_3190443451192923416gmail-il">mail</span> <span class="m_-5457803109323626743gmail-m_8269805191392754163gmail-m_-4807224822799193958gmail-m_-1141488058345208449m_-4082796757349072613gmail-m_5215252036485821826gmail-m_-2634892697165612292gmail-m_6324776411065130667gmail-m_1398300420053645662m_3190443451192923416gmail-m_-3236448625161631958gmail-m_-8379118852138647182gmail-m_-6417268801349296248gmail-m_1986229171992062500gmail-m_1181632840545237343gmail-m_5539741857281978456gmail-m_3269739548110022274gmail-m_-7417594590945562825m_-3106942960241565296gmail-m_2797144110872258469gmail-m_7277579120155508541gmail-m_9149391285218628846gmail-il"><span class="m_-5457803109323626743gmail-m_8269805191392754163gmail-m_-4807224822799193958gmail-m_-1141488058345208449m_-4082796757349072613gmail-m_5215252036485821826gmail-m_-2634892697165612292gmail-m_6324776411065130667gmail-m_1398300420053645662m_3190443451192923416gmail-il">ballot</span></span>.<br></div><br><b><u>Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by November 14, <span class="m_-5457803109323626743gmail-m_8269805191392754163gmail-m_-4807224822799193958gmail-m_-1141488058345208449m_-4082796757349072613gmail-m_5215252036485821826gmail-m_-2634892697165612292gmail-m_6324776411065130667gmail-m_1398300420053645662m_3190443451192923416gmail-m_-3236448625161631958gmail-m_-8379118852138647182gmail-m_-6417268801349296248gmail-m_1986229171992062500gmail-m_1181632840545237343gmail-m_5539741857281978456gmail-m_3269739548110022274gmail-m_-7417594590945562825m_-3106942960241565296gmail-m_2797144110872258469gmail-m_7277579120155508541gmail-m_9149391285218628846gmail-il"><span class="m_-5457803109323626743gmail-m_8269805191392754163gmail-m_-4807224822799193958gmail-m_-1141488058345208449m_-4082796757349072613gmail-m_5215252036485821826gmail-m_-2634892697165612292gmail-m_6324776411065130667gmail-m_1398300420053645662m_3190443451192923416gmail-il">2017</span></span> at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,153,0)"></span><br></u></b> <br><u>Co-Sponsors:</u> Hagan, Hayes, Harlos, Goldstein<br>
<br><u>Motion:</u> to increase the budgets for both Line 26-Brand Development/Political Materials Revenue and Line 55-Brand Development/Political Materials Expenses from $60,000 each to $80,000 each<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-Alicia<br><br></font></span></div>
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