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Ranked Choice Vote ID	81
Ranked Choice Vote	Election: Coordinating Committee, unscheduled vacancies, three male seats, remainder of July 2015 - June 2017
Type	Secret Ballot
Number of Seats	3
Ranked Choice Vote Administrator	Mike Feinstein
Phase	Closed
Discussion	03/08/2016 - 04/17/2016
Voting	04/18/2016 - 04/25/2016
Result	Results
Presens Quorum	12 0.5001
Candidates	No Other Candidate Eric Brooks Tarik Kanaana

Background

This election is to fill one unscheduled vacancy for one female seat on the GPCA Coordinating Committee http://www.cagreens.org/committees/coordinating, resulting from resignations by Sasha Karlik, Jesse Moorman and Rich Zitola, elected in June 2015 http://sga.cagreens.org/vote/irvresult?pid=66, to serve the remainder of the two year term running from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2017. The Coordinating Committee's Duties and Authority are found here http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-03-23#Section_8-1_Duties_and_Authority .

When such unscheduled vacancies occur, the Coordinating Committee shall publish a Notice of Vacancy and Call for Candidate Submissions to the active County Organizations, as per GPCA Bylaws 8-4.5 http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_8-4_Elections . This was sent on February 15, 2015.

According to GPCA Bylaws 8-2.1, "The Coordinating Committee shall be composed of up to 24 voting members, with 12 men and 12 women. Six men and six women shall be elected each year to serve staggered, two year terms" http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-03-23#Section_8-2_Membership and 8-4.1 "Elections shall be conducted each year by the Standing Green Assembly using Ranked Choice Voting with a No Other Candidate option, with the six week discussion period beginning on the first Monday of May and the one week voting period commencing immediately thereafter" http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-03-23#Section_8-4_Elections . 8-4.3(b) adds that the election as it is posted to the Standing Green Assembly shall include: "A full and detailed explanation of Ranked Choice Voting, an explanation of the No Other Candidate option, and an encouragement that delegates make their choices seriously and a reminder that they do not have to fill all seats unless they feel there are enough qualified candidates."

Ranked Choice Voting is explained here http://www.fairvote.org/reforms/fair-representation-voting/choice-voting • http://www.fairvote.org/reforms/instant-runoff-voting • http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=876 • http://www.acgov.org/rov/rcv. Ranking 'No Other Candidate' (NOC) means once NOC passed the approval threshold, no further candidates will be elected, other than those (if any) who have already been elected before NOC reached the threshold.

Candidate Information

No Other Candidate

Eric Brooks
Biography: My name is Eric Brooks. I have been a registered California and San Francisco Green since 1994, and have been an active San Francisco and California Green volunteer since 2005. I have been a professional grassroots environmental, social justice and consumer organizer since 1985. My main contribution to Green political work has been in extensively representing the SF Green Party in coalition building with other organizations, and leveraging city and state government to achieve policy changes that advance Green Party objectives. Examples of successful campaigns in which I have represented the SF Green party are; winning a major clean energy program launch in San Francisco, stopping state level bills that would kill local community based clean energy programs in California, preventing further privatization of San Francisco’s internet communications network, stopping harmful development projects by Wall Street real estate developers, stopping and shutting down fossil fuel power plants, preventing the weakening of the protections of the California Environmental Quality Act, and helping the San Francisco Green Party’s mayoral candidate to gain 33% of vote in the 2015 mayoral election against the incumbent mayor.

Objective: My primary objective as a Coordinating Committee member is to encourage the committee to aggressively work for a major shift in the electoral process in local municipalities, California, and the U.S. that would establish Proportional Representation for all legislative seats, and ranked choice voting for all elected executive and judicial branch seats. Until proportional representation is firmly established for legislative elections, the Green Party will have almost no real influence in politics and policy; therefore I see this objective as a necessary first step to achieving all other objectives of the Party.

Tarik Kanaana
Biography and goals: I have been a supporter of the Green Party and the ideals and principles that motivate it all of my adult life. I became interested in the politics of the GP after moving to the US from Palestine especially during the lead up to the 2000 elections. After moving to California I registered Green and have been since.

I have been active at the county level since 2011 and at the state and national level shortly after. I am on the Sonoma County Council, The CAGP SGA and am a delegate to the National Committee.

If I am elected to the CC I would work, first of, all to represent my county. I would also like to help bring more diversity to the party and help end some of the in-fighting that has been going on in the party and, I feel, is holding it back.

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