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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	295
Proposal	Delegate Allocation for GPUS National Committee
Presenter	GPUS Apportionment Standing Committee
Floor Manager	Holly Hart
Phase	Closed - Adopted
Discussion	06-13-2007 - 06-26-2007
Voting	06-27-2007 - 07-03-2007
Presens Quorum	Two Thirds of Active Accredited States/Caucuses
Consens Quorum	Two Thirds of Yes and No Votes

Background

Proposal 272, adopted by the GPUS National Committee on April 15, 2007, states:

"The GPUS hereby creates the Apportionment Standing Committee to make decisions
regarding the implementation of the above formula … The tasks laid out for the
committee include the following:

1. Designing spreadsheets that perform the calculations of the formulas
described above for delegate apportionment.

2. Soliciting the state parties to send the relevant data so that apportionment
can be undertaken with the most complete data. (If a state party does not submit
numbers in a timely fashion, the committee is empowered to use publicly
available data or to allocate the delegate minimum to that state party until the
next apportionment.)

3. Applying the criteria of this proposal to the data, plugging the most
accurate available numbers into the formula, and completing the computations.

4. Developing a formal challenge process for data submitted by a state party or
to the data entry or computational analysis, reviewing any such challenges, and
making the final decision regarding the numbers to be used.

5. Reporting the results of apportionment to the NC in a timely fashion and
presenting the proposal to approve the completed computations."

The Apportionment Standing Committee has carried out tasks 1-4 above, and is
presenting the following proposal as its 5th task.

The Apportionment Standing Committee has also formally decided that the
challenge period (see reference below to challenge process) will be the first
ten days of the discussion period for this proposal. The committee will consider
valid challenges as friendly amendments to the proposed numbers.

Proposal

Pursuant to Proposal 272, the GPUS National Committee approves the completed
computation of delegate apportionment submitted by the GPUS Apportionment
Standing Committee:

State Number of votes

Alabama 2
Alaska 2
Arizona 2
Arkansas 2
California 42
Colorado 3
Connecticut 5
Delaware 2
District of Columbia 4
Florida 4
Georgia 2
Hawaii 2
Idaho 2
Illinois 11
Indiana 2
Iowa 2
Kansas 2
Louisiana 2
Maine 11
Maryland 4
Massachusetts 8
Michigan 6
Minnesota 3
Mississippi 2
Missouri 2
Montana 2
Nebraska 2
Nevada 2
New Jersey 3
New Mexico 2
New York 10
North Carolina 2
Ohio 3
Oklahoma 2
Oregon 6
Pennsylvania 8
Rhode Island 2
South Carolina 2
Tennessee 2
Texas 3
Utah 2
Vermont 2
Virginia 2
Washington 3
Wisconsin 6
Wyoming 2
Lavender Caucus 1
Black Caucus 1
Women's Caucus 1
TOTAL 200

Resources

CONTACTS
Aram Falsafi aram@aramfalsafi.com
Gary Novosielski gary@novosielski.com
Cat Woods, cat801@mindspring.com

References

Proposal #272: Allocation of Delegates to the National Committee of the Green Party
version 2:
http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=272

Challenge Process for Apportionment Standing Committee, adopted by the committee on June
3, 2006:
http://lists.gp-us.org/pipermail/app-com/2007-June/000157.html

Spreadsheet showing the calculation used in coming up with the above numbers:
http://www.seattlegreens.org/gpus-dac/index.html

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