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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	1234
Proposal	Certification of 2024 SC Co-chairs election
Presenter	Elections Tabulation Committee
Floor Manager	Joseph Naham
Phase	Closed - Adopted
Discussion	10-07-2024 - 10-20-2024
Voting	10-21-2024 - 10-27-2024
Presens Quorum	Two Thirds of Active Accredited States/Caucuses
Consens Quorum	A Majority of Yes and No Votes

Background

Steering Committee elections concluded as scheduled on August 18, 2024. There were no reports of ballot key messages bouncing from recipients. 84 ballots were submitted, with 81 votes cast and 3 Abstentions.

All ballot keys were successfully delivered to the ballot key mailbox. Ballot keys are sent to the respective voters and to a webmail account accessible to the Elections Tabulation Committee. The full breakdown should also appear in the voting page results. This year, however, as in 2022 and 2021, the full reports did not appear on the voting page results: names of those who voted, and a breakdown of the tabulation were published, but not a list of voters with the ballot keys attached. Therefore, the Elections Tabulation Committee created our own spreadsheet listing voters with ballot keys, published that to the national committee business list, and asked that voters review their entries to confirm accuracy. Had we received reports of errors (not due to human error), we would then have manually tabulated the results. At this time, we have good reason to believe that the ballots were all accounted for and counted accurately.

2024 Steering Committee Co-chair Election Results: https://secure.gpus.org/cgi-bin/vote/irvresult?pid=1228

ETC Spreadsheet with Ballot Keys - 2024 SC Co-chair Election:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1myR8Z2by7GsAKfl4X93vd2F5WiKWQk7DsHZ73QQa_jc/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Bug Report

1. Duplicate ballot keys have surfaced in nearly every election. These are unintentional, and it is not known how it happens, but at this point, it is expected and we work to make sure there are no extreme anomalies associated with those duplicate ballots keys. Its believed they are not counted by the software, but it would take a more in-depth tabulation to be sure. To date, all final results include enough data to show that the election outcomes would not have been changed. 

In this election, no duplicate ballots appeared. (One set of duplicates occurred in a concurrent election for the members of the Elections Tabulation Committee. Those ballot keys have been saved: in this case, the duplicate ballot had a time stamp within a minute of the first.)

2. At the conclusion of the election, all results are supposed to

be published on the voting page. In one or two more recent past instances, the 3rd list (names with ballot keys and results) appeared with names and ballot keys only. The votes do not appear, but if someone wanted to see how a delegate voted, they could click on the linked ballot key. Starting about a year ago, the entire 3rd list has not appeared. If this isnt correctable now, results can still be published with a manual reconstruction using the ballot keys. With the ballot keys stored in the webmail account, the ETC can reconstruct the vote and confirm that the results were reported correctly.

The 3rd list (voters with ballot keys) did not appear this year.

3. For the past 3 years, names and results began to disappear from the list of voters and voting keys (2nd list). It was determined that this occurred when a delegate or alternate who had voted

in that election stepped down from their position. Their names remained in the 1st list, and the results remained unaltered. We dont yet know if this phenomenon will occur again.

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Per GPUS Rules & Procedures, the ETC should review

and produce a final report as soon as possible, followed by a national committee vote to certify the elections.

Respectfully submitted:

Holly Hart

Margaret Elisabeth

Darryl! Moch

Proposal

The Green Party the U.S. National Committee hereby certifies the results of the August 18, 2024, Steering Committee election for Co-chairs.

Co-chairs

Justin Paglino

Cassandra Lems

Charles Ostdiek

Resources

None

References

https://gpus.org/rules-procedures/#07ARTICLE VII: PREFERENCE VOTING RULES FOR STEERING

COMMITTEE ELECTIONS:

2. Receipt & Right to Challenge Election Results

When the GNC receives a report from the Election Tabulation

Committee or a properly filed Challenge as described in paragraph 3., below, the question shall be put to the GNC, on the fourteenth day following the transmittal of the report, on certifying the results as so reported, and as a distinct question, on sustaining each Challenge as may have been timely filed. In presenting a question on sustaining a Challenge, it shall be made clear that to sustain the Challenge is to act to adopt such amendments to the certification as may be proposed by the sustained Challenge. Such questions shall be resolved by a simple majority vote of the GNC.

The voting software used by the Green Party of the United States is free software, licensed under the General Public License v2 (GPL).