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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	92
Proposal	Bylaws Amendment: Secret ballots for candidate endorsements
Presenter	Bylaws Committee
Floor Manager	Mike Feinstein
Phase	Closed
Discussion	05/10/2016 - 06/26/2016
Voting	06/27/2016 - 07/03/2016
Result	Adopted
Presens Quorum	12 0.5001
Consens Quorum	56 0.6666 of Yes and No Votes

Background

Since the implementation of the Top Two primary system in California in 2012, political party primaries have been eliminated. In response, the GPCA has begun to make endorsements for Greens running in statewide races. The endorsements have been made via the Standing General Assembly (SGA) voting page, beginning with the statewide elections in 2014.

In both 2014 and 2016, the GPCA's statewide candidate endorsements have been made by a closed ballot on the SGA voting page, to allow people to vote in private about people they knew personally. This practice is consistent with how the GPCA conducted most of its pre-SGA internal elections for Coordinating Committee and GPUS Delegation in past years, via closed paper ballots.

However this procedure has not been codified in party rules. This proposal would do this for candidate endorsements, and eliminate future disputes over this question of whether the ballot should be open or closed, by adding "secret ballot" to GPCA Bylaws 7-6.2(b) as follows

7-6.2(b) Endorsements of statewide candidates (closed ballot)

Proposal

Add '(secret ballot)' in 7-6.2(b) 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.

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7-6.2(b) Endorsements of statewide candidates (secret ballot);

Resources

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References

Existing text in GPCA Bylaws 7-6.2 (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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