[Pnp-wg] More issues relating to "proportionality".

[Steve Greenfield]

> The result could
> hardly be called democratic?

Right you are.

> Should we encourage states with this type of
> primary to poll their members, and adjust the resulting figures from their
> primary elections?

I believe we should, and whatever mechanisms we figure out that GPUS offers
to assist states in doing so should also be available to states that have
primaries so we can have a better idea of what's going on. The tricky part
starts when primary states get 20,000 people to turn out, and the NOTA
estimates are being gauged by phone, mail, caucus or digital surveys that
are responded to by 100 people. The risk of accidentally multiplying a
margin of error in a small sample into something huge is just as great as
the risk of not counting NOTA's at all in the primary states. So the
mechanism we (not necessarily this committee, but whatever working group
draws the unpleasant task of implementing our recommendations) devise has to
be a very productive one.

SG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Leavitt" <thomasleavitt@hotmail.com>
To: <pnp-wg@lists.gp-us.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:16 PM
Subject: [Pnp-wg] More issues relating to "proportionality".


> I was thinking about the issue of how a state would determine the
sympathies
> of Greens at a grassroots level, and the following occured to me:
>
> In states where primary elections are held, does the Green Party have the
> option (legally) of putting "uncommitted" or "NOTA" on the ballot? I know
in
> California, that we can't do NOTA, and I'm pretty sure we can't do
> "uncommitted" either. States that don't do government administered
primaries
> or that use caucuses would not run into this problem. The result would
tend
> to skew the results against folks who prefer "uncommitted" and NOTA
> positions - what if these positions pulled 25-33% of the vote in all other
> states but those with state-administered primary elections? The result
could
> hardly be called democratic? Should we encourage states with this type of
> primary to poll their members, and adjust the resulting figures from their
> primary elections?
>
>
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