[Procedures] Modification to Nominations/Elections Proc. forState Convention

[Owen Broadhurst]

Agreed. Another option: number the ballots, and assign one officer to take names down for the numbers as ballots are turned in (set up an additional table during balloting). This way, that one officer would know whose ballots were cast in event of problems.

OB

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Melnechuk" <isis at isisdesign.com>
To: "Procedures and Structures Committee" <procedures at green-rainbow.org>
Subject: Re: [Procedures] Modification to Nominations/Elections Proc. forState Convention
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:17:51 -0500

> 
> Absolutely. I'm all for signed ballot.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Mar 15, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Jim Bosman wrote:
> 
> > Dear Procedures Committee:
> >
> > In reviewing the proc. for nominating and electing
> > positions at the state convention, I noticed that it
> > has a line in it about how the election will be
> > conducted. That line is in Section 6, and states "The
> > election shall be by secret ballot, following GRP
> > elections procedures."
> >
> > As you may recall, we wound up with a colossal waste
> > of time at last year's convention because somebody
> > marked their ballot wrong, and since the ballots
> > weren't signed, the counters couldn't go back to the
> > voter and find out what they intended and it threw the
> > election for one office into a shambles and we had to
> > re-run that election the following day. In order to
> > avoid that, I would like to float a proposal for the
> > April statecom meeting changing that line from "secret
> > ballot" to "signed ballot".
> >
> > Will the members of this committee please weigh in on
> > this (vette this proposal)?
> >
> > I support it because it could help us avoid a colossal
> > waste of time. There may be those who don't want their
> > name on their ballot for some reason, so we would need
> > to address that somehow....
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