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Ranked Choice Vote Details

Ranked Choice Vote ID	1172
Ranked Choice Vote	December 2023 Coordinated Campaign Committee Election - Men Nonbinary Individuals
Type	Open Ballot
Number of Seats	3
Ranked Choice Vote Administrator	Holly Hart
Phase	Closed - 3 Elected
Discussion	12-18-2023 - 12-31-2023
Voting	01-01-2024 - 01-07-2024
Presens Quorum	Two Thirds of Active Accredited States/Caucuses
Candidates	Artis Burney, MS Michael Cooper, IN Andy Ellis, MD

Background

CCC COMMITTEE STRUCTURE

The Coordinated Campaign Committee shall consist of 10 voting members drawn from the affiliated state parties and caucuses. The National Committee shall elect 5 members of the CCC and replacements for recently opened vacancies with an on line election to be held each year. Nominations will be called for by the Secretary of the GPUS each year two weeks after Election Day. A two week nominating period shall be opened, followed by one week of discussion and an on line STV vote using the GPUS voting page and following the procedures and protocols the GPUS uses to elect the Steering Committee. The 5 people elected each year via the regular election shall serve two year terms while those elected or selected to fill vacancies will serve out the term of the member they are replacing. In between annual December elections for the CCC the GPUS Steering Committee shall appoint Greens to fill vacancies.

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The committee shall always have an equal number of women to other members on its roster, except when it has an odd number of members. Then its makeup can be +1 for any gender. The exception to this rule is that no member of the committee shall be asked or forced to resign from the committee in order to re-establish the balance. The balance will be re-established by adding members to the committee. Each year, the election to fill open seats on the CCC shall be two elections, one to elect up to 5 women to the committee, one to elect up to 5 open seats for men and nonbinary individuals. The number elected in any given year shall be determined by the nature of the vacancies in that year with the goal of having at least 5 women on the committee.”

No State Green Party or GPUS Caucus may have more than one member serving on the CCC at any time. State Parties and Caucuses must formally, in writing, nominate one of their members to serve on the CCC. No State Party or Caucus can nominate more than one person in any given year, nor can they nominate if a member of their state party or caucus will continue to serve on the committee after the filling of whatever seats are being filled. Nominations from State Party or Caucus officers are to be sent to the Secretary of the GPUS during the post November Election Nominating Period and when a vacancy is being filled, and the Secretary shall publish them on the votes email list.

The Coordinated Campaign Committee may also work with a pool of CCC Associates; these include one liaison from each affiliated state party not already represented on the CCC as well as staff or other persons necessary to the productivity of the CCC who shall be chosen as deemed appropriate by the CCC. Associates may participate in CCC discussions and meetings as needed but are not regular voting members of the CCC.

The responsibilities of the co-chairs shall include keeping the committee on task, maintaining a current roster of committee members, conducting votes, and communicating with CC and SC members for the BRPP committee and its subcommittees. Co-chairs shall submit formal monthly reports to the CC list detailing committee activities. The committee may create working groups and subcommittees.

More information: https://gpus.org/committees/coordinated-campaign/ccc-policies-and-procedures/

There are Three Candidates running for Three seats open for Men and Nonbinary Individuals

Artis Burney, MS
Michael Cooper, IN
Andy Ellis, MD

Candidate Information

Artis Burney, MS
Mississippi State Senate District 51, General election day Nov 7, 2023
A poet, herbalist and an activist for local control of food, water, and power in coastal Mississippi. His local group of supporters of the Green Party is a strong coalition of former Democrats, Republicans, and independents who are committed to wresting political power from the corporate duopoly, currently challenging Southern Company and its subsidiary, Southern Power.

Michael Cooper, IN
Michael is an active leader in his local community with a passion for the environment, human rights and community development. A native of North Carolina, he came to the Midwest to attend graduate school in Chicago and returned to the beautiful dunes of Lake Michigan over a decade ago. Michael has extensive experience in non-profit management, advocacy organizations, accounting, finance and design.

After a demoralizing experience trying to get a comprehsenive human rights ordinance through the Democratic controlled Portage City Council, Michael ran in 2019 for his city council district seat. He placed second with 33% of the vote as a third-party Green candidate. That was an accomplishment he credits to his extensive door-to-door campaign strategy that focused on speaking directly to the residents of Portage’s second district. Since 2019, Michael served for a year on the Portage Ethics Commission as well as regularly attending the Portage Plan Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals meetings to speak out for protecting our wetlands and our public health. In 2023 he was on the ballot for Mayor of Portage.

Aside with local efforts with the Northwest Indiana Green Party, Michael was previously served as treasurer of the Indiana Green Party and is currently their elected Communications Director. He is also a member of the NWI Medicare for All group that meets monthly at Steelworker Hall. Michael looks forward to working with other Greens around the region seeking to bring our progressive values to our local governments.

Andy Ellis, MD
I have supported the Green Party in many elections, but  I became actively involved in 2015. Since then I have been a candidate for state delegate, a Co-chair of the Maryland Green Party and the Baltimore City Green Party. I have worked on several Green Party campaigns, served on national committees, and traveled around the state and region to help support local independent political  organizing.

The Green Party has values I agree with solutions that address problems at their roots.  Our movement has decades of experience at the national, state and local level doing the hard work of building healthy political  parties independent of the two party system.
I believe the Green Party has an important role to play in Maryland. We have solutions to confront the climate crisis , ideas to expand democracy beyond the polarized two party system, policies that can  end wealth inequality, and an enduring commitment to  make repair for previous and ongoing injustices.

We need a political system with multiple healthy parties and the Green Party should be.

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