[Pnp-wg] represntation

[Gary R. Hecker]

I agree with the difficulty in identifying Greens. I suggest we focus on
that before we continue the discussion on proportional rep. Have people
ruled out a stright one green-one vote system? I see only discussion of
delegation size. If we could identify WHO we are representing, we can beeter
determine HOW to do that.
Starting Point?

My definition of a Green: Member of a Local who is NOT registered with
another Party, and has not been registered with another party for 6 months
(no jumping ship to vote in primaries).

Gary
Florida

> I wish everyone could just acknowledge that states in which Greens are
> listed as such when they register to vote have a distinct advantage if
> those Green voters as then considered "members" of the party for
> purposes of determining delegate allocation. How are nonenrollment
> states supposed to come up with comparable estimates of our
> "membership"? If somebody has already spelled this out, I guess I
> missed it.
> 
> There *is* a distinction between bona fide Green Party members -- those
> who have gone to the trouble of filling out a membership form, that is
> -- and registrants. In Wisconsin we currently have 289 of the former and
> 0 of the latter.
> 
> If we want to look at factors other than total population or total bona
> fide membership, it can't be registered voters. It will have to be some
> sort of "best showing" percentage in a given race, as was part of the
> calculus last time.
> 
> Jeff Peterson
> Wisconsin
> 
> P.S. I would appreciate it if, as an element of list protocol, folks
> could indicate their state affiliation when they post.
> 
> Owen Broadhurst wrote:
> 
>> I should note that it is not with what we might call the Greenfield
>> approach that I wrote taking issue, but rather the suggestion that
>> there is a distinction to be made between "bona fides" and
>> registrants.
>> 
>> Humble apologies for my failure to clarify that.
>> 
>> OB
>> 
>> 
> 
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