Green Party of the United States - National Committee Voting

Home	Vote	Results	History	Contacts	Admin
	National Committee Voting

Login

Proposal Details

Proposal ID	303
Proposal	Amendment to Article II of proposal 272
Presenter	Green Party of Vermont
Floor Manager	Elizabeth Arnone
Phase	Closed - Adopted
Discussion	07-16-2007 - 08-05-2007
Voting	08-06-2007 - 08-12-2007
Presens Quorum	Two Thirds of Active Accredited States/Caucuses
Consens Quorum	Two Thirds of Yes and No Votes

Background

On April 15, 2007, the Green Party of the United States adopted proposal
272, creating a new formula for allocating delegates to different state parties.
Proposal 272 also allowed state parties to cast fractional votes, in
denominations of half a vote. This language is in Article II of proposal
272.

However, the current GPUS voting software is not capable of recording
fractional votes. Therefore, it is necessary to rescind that portion of Article II of proposal 272 until the software has been modified to support fractional votes.

Proposal

In that section of the GPUS rules established by Proposal 272, Article II, the language "Delegate votes may also be split, in
denominations of half votes, in order to more accurately represent the opinions of each state's membership" shall be, and hereby is, rescinded.

This rescission shall be without prejudice against the introduction of future proposals brought for the purpose of revisiting this question of fractional voting.

Resources

Contact: Crag Hill craigbhill@gmail.com

References

http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=272

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