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

[Mike Heichman]

Hi Rich (and everyone else):

"I know not what others may think,
But as for me,
This I understand."

Mike Heichman




on 6/14/04 8:17 PM, Richard Zitola at 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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