<div dir="ltr">I am very pleased with the At-Large outcome. It is my opinion that the At-large voting procedure is flawed in that there are 5 slots and 30(?) candidates. I think plurality voting is the only way to efficiently handle multiple candidates for multiple openings. There was no bullying, no force, no intimidation.  <div><br></div><div>Furthermore, I am not certain that the outcome would have been any different had the procedure been done by the book, and if it had, it would have taken 12 hours or more, same opinion with the Judicial Committee. I would like to see plurality voting for any positions that have multiple openings with perhaps taking the top vote recipients equal to twice the number of openings for round one, and move them to the final round of plurality voting to determine the top picks. </div><div><br></div><div>For these elections, we were allowed to choose all of our candidate choices, and those with the most approval votes got the positions. <br><br>Now, this sort of officer election would be perfect for ranked choice voting.</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect that the person(s) raising the issue is just upset that their guy didn't win. </div><div><br></div><div>Ted Metz</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Ryan Graham via Lpganationaldelegates2018 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lpganationaldelegates2018@lpmail.lp.org" target="_blank">lpganationaldelegates2018@lpmail.lp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,Palatino,serif">
<p>I've given the feedback as no animosity or anything towards Nick for hurrying us along at the end, but still general unhappiness with the result. We need to get it fixed by 2020 so it doesn't happen again, but we can accept what happened this year.</p>
<p>The problem with moving the elections up is less time to campaign for the candidates. Should be a happy medium somewhere though. The speed at which we vote is also a problem. A party that literally complains about our abundance of IT people and we're still hand balloting these things for our Secretary to enter into Excel on her unsupported Windows XP laptop is probably not going to cut it.</p><span class="">
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<p>I think the issue is more that we leave the really important elections until the very end. We shouldn't have to rush through it. I'm not mad Nick rushed us through it based on where we were, but we shouldn't be in that position to begin with.</p>
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<div>Blame me. I left early.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div>
<div><br>On Jul 5, 2018, at 9:42 PM, Nathan Wilson via Lpganationaldelegates2018 <<a href="mailto:lpganationaldelegates2018@lpmail.lp.org" target="_blank">lpganationaldelegates2018@<wbr>lpmail.lp.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div>
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<div dir="auto">If the at-large was not resolved through the majority's, then the rest of the board would have appointed individuals they chose.
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<div dir="auto">Last convention we did not get to the judicial votes, so the lnc chose the judicial candidates. The body had no say in those results.</div>
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<div dir="auto">In my opinion this was handled the best way possible given the time that was left. I feel there would have been little change in the lnc regardless of how many more votes we had. </div>
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<div dir="auto">If you feel the need to blame anyone, I did at the last moment at Alicia Mattson to my vote for at Large. Though this wouldn't fix anything it would have gave sheetz a chance. Though more accurately we could blame the hundreds of other people who left early.</div>
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<div>On Thursday, July 5, 2018, 8:43:57 PM EDT, Ryan Graham via Lpganationaldelegates2018 <<a href="mailto:lpganationaldelegates2018@lpmail.lp.org" target="_blank">lpganationaldelegates2018@<wbr>lpmail.lp.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p>Hey Team,</p>
<p>Our brand new alternate is asking us about how this was handled. It sounds like some are upset at us suspending the rules to elect these positions in one vote, especially given the first out in the LNC At-Large race only lost by a single vote.</p>
<p>Victoria wants to know if we felt bullied in any way.</p>
<p>It sounds like there is some discussion of fixing the vote for the 3 LNC At-Large that we got by suspending the rules, and every Judicial Committee member.</p>
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