[GPCA-SGA-Votes] [Gpca-votes] Fwd: [gpca-cc] SGA Vote Administrator procedures

Fri Feb 2 23:19:31 PST 2018

Hi Erik, all,

While your comments are a contribution, as I said before, the arguments have been heard on this, and we need to move on.

Please all accept this as the last comment and focus on other discussions.

thanks

Eric Brooks
SGA Vote Admin

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Subject: Re: [GPCA-SGA-Votes] [Gpca-votes] Fwd: [gpca-cc] SGA Vote Administrator procedures

Inventing flaws with everyone around you so that you seem superior is a shallow tactic disguised as “championing democracy”. That is easy to see through. Not one word about how prior SGA admins openly blocked county Parties from appointing their SGA Delegates.

This most recent SGA vote produced the most qualified candidates with the highest level of integrity to serve the state party.

If we were to Re-vote for the candidates today I’m confident that our current Coordinating Committee members who were elected would receive an even higher percentage of the vote.

Especially seeing how some of the unsuccessful candidates in the race have chosen to respond as a result of receiving a extraordinarily low percentage of the vote.

Ignore the list serve if people are using it as a soapbox to throw a tantrum over losing a perfectly democratic election.

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 9:11 PM <greg.varra at gmail.com<mailto:greg.varra at gmail.com>> wrote:
Ann,

We have not met but I agree with you wholeheartedly!   A lot of time, efforts and resources are being wasted on ego based personality conflicts.

I don’t think it sets a very good example for those of us who are fairly new to this and is beginning to reveal why GPUS is not taken seriously.
People, Planet, Peace

Greg Varra
Riverside County Council

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On Jan 31, 2018, at 9:51 AM, Ann Menasche <aemenasche at gmail.com<mailto:aemenasche at gmail.com>> wrote:
I think it is very sad that we are still embroiled in all this business instead of focusing in the CC on political discussions and planning on how to grow the Party, build our electoral campaigns and repeal Two Top. I'm another witness to attempts to interfere with a smooth transition of leadership as I was at those meetings.
Enough already.
Ann

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 31, 2018, at 9:45 AM, Sadie Fulton <sadie.fulton at gmail.com<mailto:sadie.fulton at gmail.com>> wrote:

Nicole, you are not expressing dissent anymore, you are exploiting a strategic lack of paper trail in order to gaslight the entire listserv. In a court of law,  testimonies from a wide variety of witnesses are usually adequate for sentencing. Its time your side ponied up a bit more solid evidence of your claims instead of one person asserting their "understanding".

You can assert that I and the others on this listserv are liars if you want to. I will testify under oath if that's what's needed of me.
Sadie

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 09:32 Nicole Castor <nmcastorsilva at gmail.com<mailto:nmcastorsilva at gmail.com>> wrote:

Bob and others,

Bob is entitled to an opinion, but should never speak on behalf of others.

I have every right to address these issues as they are completely relevant to the upcoming SGA voting period.

The responses I've seen from the so-called "reformers" are weak, non-evidence to excuse their undemocratic and exclusionary practices in handing the previous vote.

For the delegates set to participate, let this be a beacon to any who may have had doubts or opinions which might not align with the GPCA status quo- showing that they are not alone.

-N

PS. It's only a waste of time when it's dissent, huh? Maintaining integrity in our values & purpose is never a waste of time.
On Jan 31, 2018 9:10 AM, "Bob Marsh" <bob at marsh.name<mailto:bob at marsh.name>> wrote:
Nicole has wasted enough of my time (and all of yours as well, I'm sure) so I'm giving her a coveted spot on my "delete immediately" email list... poof! gone.
cheers,
Bob

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Nicole Castor <nmcastorsilva at gmail.com<mailto:nmcastorsilva at gmail.com>> wrote:

What evidence is this exactly? That someone sent a request? I see no reply explaining a refusal to comply. How are we to know phone calls weren't made or that SGA admins other than Laura weren't contacted separately? It is my understanding that Brian Good was contacted, although this could be wrong.

If there is no actual evidence to indicate the claims which have been stated, the argument should cease.

This still does not address my original concern that the statistics of the SGA vote are not valid. The reason for this is that the voting was not completed since some SGA delegates were cut off three hours prior to the deadline. It makes no difference whether or not these delegates "agreed" to forfeit their votes. The point is- it affects the percentages in the results. Therefore, if someone out there was citing these percentages for whatever reason- the numbers would not be accurate.

I wish i had mentioned it when it happened, but i mention now because we are approaching a new voting period and it is my hope, as it should be for all others as well, that this next vote reflects more integrity in the values we claim to uphold.

-N
On Jan 31, 2018 7:36 AM, "Sadie Fulton" <sadie.fulton at gmail.com<mailto:sadie.fulton at gmail.com>> wrote:
The attached email is evidence of the new SGA administrators reaching out to the outgoing ones, requesting access and training. This is direct evidence against Nicole's claim that outreach was made in the other direction and refused.
No response was ever received for this email. If the claim that Tim and Mike were willing to train the new SGA administrators back in September when the request was made is to hold any water henceforth, let's see your evidence.
Sadie
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From: Laura Wells <laurawells510 at gmail.com<mailto:laurawells510 at gmail.com>>
Date: Wed, Sep 6, 2017, 11:34
Subject: [gpca-cc] SGA Vote Administrator procedures
To: GPCA Coordinating Committee <gpca-cc at lists.cagreens.org<mailto:gpca-cc at lists.cagreens.org>>
Cc: Tim Laidman <timlaidman at yahoo.com<mailto:timlaidman at yahoo.com>>, Brian Good <snug.bug at hotmail.com<mailto:snug.bug at hotmail.com>>

[This list of questions is going especially to long-time SGA Vote Administrators Mike Feinstein and Tim Laidman; to all CC members; and to Brian Good, a newly elected admin who is not on the CC.]

Hello all —

Now that we have a roster of 5 new SGA Vote Administrators (Victoria Ashley, Brian Good, Laura Wells), and 2 alternates (Eric Brooks and Mike Goldbeck), we need to get trained and up-to-speed.

Please reply with whatever help you can provide.

Here is a starter list of questions that will allow us to create procedures, a process for gaining access to the system, and training needed by the incoming SGA Vote Administrators. The last question applies to almost all of the others: who performs each of the tasks now, and who can provide the new admins with access to each of the processes?

(1) How is the list of SGA delegates updated?
http://sga.cagreens.org/vote/contacts?cid=13

(2) How are SGA delegates added to the SGA email list, gpca-votes at cagreens.org<mailto:gpca-votes at cagreens.org> (or gpca-votes at lists.cagreens.org<mailto:gpca-votes at lists.cagreens.org>)?

(3) How are SGA delegates added to the SGA voting pages/voting system?

(4) How do proposal pages get published on the website?

(5) How do candidate lists get published on the website? How do candidate applications/bios get published and updated?

(6) How are the SGA announcements set up? Announcements include the beginning of the discussion and voting periods, the upcoming end of the voting period, and the ending of the voting period.

(7) How are the results announced for yes/no votes and for ranked choice votes?

(8) Who does each of the above, and who can provide the new admins with access to each of the above?

(9) What else should be included on this list of questions?

NOTE that in researching the GP-US voting system, it appears that “Vote Administrators” are called “Floor Managers” and the job rotates among the Steering Committee members, with some duties performed by the Secretary of the Steering Committee. The system was described as a process of filling out (“plugging in”) the software forms online: checking boxes for kind of vote, discussion period, listing candidates; and pasting in proposals, background, resources required, references. It’s possible that the CA system, which apparently was originally based on the same system as the national, may have become more complicated over the years, but still do-able by people who are not necessarily highly technical.

Thank you all.
Laura Wells
CC member and one of the newly-elected SGA Vote Administrators

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