[GNC] Proxy voting by our delegation-CONFUSION ALERT!!!!

[Ion Freeman]

Simple or ... expedient?

I read your suggestion as: 
(1) the state rep counts the present votes, 
(2) divides the free proxy votes among them to the
nearest vote or half vote (depending on the round) and

(3) adds the bound proxy votes to that.

Which I'm fine with. Merelice had some objection to
letting the bound delegates share the proxy bounty.
The added complexity of my suggestion was meant to
address that. But, this way does put a little less
stress on the caucus time.

As far as decommitting ourselves after the first
round, I don't think the candidates would be happy
with that. My understanding is that we are to vote at
their direction until they release us. Is that not so?

Sorry, Mike, but I wouldn't know how to select who
gets a voice in an offline discussion ;)

ion
--- Richard Zitola <rich at vote-zitola.org> wrote:
> 
> ok... I think I got it!!!
> 
> After thinking about this more, and talking with
> more people, I'm 
> getting the impression that we're all making this
> MUCH harder than
> it needs to be.  It's dawned on me that we can boil
> even the simplified
> 10-step process down to three... yes, THREE.
> 
> And thank you Merelice for rephrasing your question
> and keeping it
> focussed on the essential point, and thank you Mike
> for kicking it up
> another notch.  :)
> 
> 
> Here goes:
> 
>    1 - In the first round, we vote exactly along the
> primary results,
>         with the "uncommitted" people each casting
> one vote.  If Jared
>         is the only hole, let's just ask him how he
> wants to vote!
> 
>    2 - From then on, EVERYONE is uncommitted, i.e.
> you vote for whoever
>         you want to vote for, one person, one vote.
> 
>    3 - We take the distribution of votes, and
> "amplify" it to make the
>         total 36, with whatever minimalist rounding
> is necessary to make
>         the numbers come out to be whole numbers. 
> What I mean by
>         "amplify" is simply this:  If our delegation
> votes 1/2 for Glover
>         and 1/2 for Miller, then we report 1/2 of
> our 36 votes for Glover
>         and 1/2 of our 36 votes for Miller.
> 
> 
> That's it!  Here are the benefits:
> 
>    - it's SIMPLE
> 
>    - AND it's democratic... one person, one vote;
> you vote your conscience
>       every time; no tug-of-war between who's in
> what delegation; we are
>       ALL treated as equals
> 
>    - it completely removes the us-and-them syndrome,
> and we truly act as
>       one delegation, speaking with one voice, in
> truly proportional
>       representation of who we really are:  the
> Green-Rainbow Party!
> 
>    - we use all 36 votes every time
> 
>    - if someone has to drop out for whatever reason,
> we don't have to
>       deal with how and to whom this phantom proxy
> gets bounced to...
>       we simply take the distribution of as many
> people as we have, in
>       fact, we can even use cell phones to include
> those who couldn't make
>       it in person throughout the whole process:
> _maximum_ inclusivity!
> 
>    - the math is beautifully simple because 36 just
> happens to be
>       neatly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, and 18!
>  (ok, this is
>       true no matter how we do it, but hey...)
> 
>    - it gets us very quickly to the eventual goal
> that Merelice mentioned,
>       i.e. a cohesive representation of the party as
> a single, and whole
>       uncommitted block... in round 2 we fully
> represent the most-preferred
>       choice of the state primary, i.e.
> "no-preference/uncommitted".
> 
>    - Jared gets to participate, even though he can't
> come
> 
>    - and did I mention, it's SIMPLE?
> 
> 
> :)
> 
> 
> Please let me know what you think...
> 
> 
> -Rich
> 
> 
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