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Proposal Details

Proposal ID91
ProposalBylaws Amendment: Secret ballots for internal party elections
PresenterBylaws Committee
Floor ManagerMike Feinstein
PhaseClosed
Discussion05/10/2016 - 06/26/2016
Voting06/27/2016 - 07/03/2016
ResultAdopted
Presens Quorum12 0.5001
Consens Quorum56 0.6666 of Yes and No Votes

Background

Prior to 2012, the GPCA General Assembly used paper ballots to elect the Coordinating Committee and GPUS Delegation. Since the establishment of the Standing General Assembly (SGA) in 2012, those elections have been conducted via the SGA Voting Page.

When the party used paper ballots, in most cases the ballots didn't identify the voter. The reason for not identifying the voter - i.e. to have a standard secret ballot - was to allow people to vote in private when voting about people they knew personally, giving them the privacy to cast their true feelings.

In moving to on-line voting, this practice has carried forward in elections for the Coordinating Committee and GPUS Delegation, but has not been codified in party rules. This proposal would codify this practice for such elections, as well as for recalls for the same bodies, and for removal for cause petitions, by adding "secret ballot" to GPCA Bylaws 7-6.2 as follows

Proposal

Add (secret ballot) in the text below, so that it reads as follows:

7-6.2 Decision Items

The following decision items shall automatically be placed before the Standing General Assembly. Other decision items may be submitted to the Standing General Assembly by Standing Committees, Working Groups and/or active County Organizations as provided for in 7-2.1.

7-6.2(a) Endorsement/opposition of qualified statewide ballot measures;

7-6.2(b) Endorsements of statewide candidates;

7-6.2(c) General Assembly Minutes;

7-6.2(d) Election of the Coordinating Committee (secret ballot);

7-6.2(e) Election of the GPUS Delegation (secret ballot);

7-6.2(f) Removal for Cause petition for County Councilmembers (secret ballot);

7-6.2(g) Recall petition for Coordinating Committee and GPUS Delegation members (secret ballot).

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Add 'by closed ballot' to the first sentence in the Coordinating Committee section of the GPCA Bylaws 8-4.1, so that it reads as follow

Section 8-4. Elections

8-4.1 Elections shall be conducted each year by the Standing Green Assembly by secret ballot, 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.

Resources

None

References

Existing text for (http://www.cagreens.org/bylaws/2013-06-23#Section_7-6_Standing_General_Assembly)

7-6.2 Decision Items

The following decision items shall automatically be placed before the Standing General Assembly. Other decision items may be submitted to the Standing General Assembly by Standing Committees, Working Groups and/or active County Organizations as provided for in 7-2.1.

7-6.2(a) Endorsement/opposition of qualified statewide ballot measures;

7-6.2(b) Endorsements of statewide candidates;

7-6.2(c) General Assembly Minutes;

7-6.2(d) Election of the Coordinating Committee

7-6.2(e) Election of the GPUS Delegation

7-6.2(f) Removal for Cause petition for County Councilmembers

7-6.2(g) Recall petition for Coordinating Committee and GPUS Delegation members.


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