{news} CT may increase to 4 delgates on National committee..in the near future

[Green Party-CT]

Aram Falsafi <aram at aramfalsafi.com> wrote:  Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 07:48:54 -0700
From: Aram Falsafi <aram at aramfalsafi.com>
To: usgp-coo at gp-us.org
CC: app-com at lists.gp-us.org
Subject: [usgp-nc] Planning for apportionment changes and National Meeting

To National Committee delegates:

The GPUS Apportionment Standing Committee is making its best effort to submit 
the new apportionment numbers to be implemented before the national meeting. In 
addition to the mandate in Proposal 272 for the Apportionment Standing Committee 
to calculate the numbers in a timely manner, many feel that ensuring that all 
state parties have fair representation in upcoming elections is important in 
order to have sufficient participation in the Presidential nomination process.

Rather than require state parties to do all the research required for the 
calculation, the committee is doing research on available data and will be 
submitting all of that to your state parties for review and possible correction 
shortly. Meanwhile, we are publishing below our current estimate of the final 
apportionment numbers, based on the latest formula changes and inclusion of 2006 
data.

To allow for the smoothest, most cooperative planning for the national meeting, 
we strongly encourage your state parties to plan for more than one contingency. 
Examples of options some state parties are employing are:

* for an expected increase, planning to fill all the seats, but informing 
delegates that not all the seats are definite yet and asking for volunteers to 
serve as alternates if necessary

* for an expected decrease, planning to fill the smaller delegation, but asking 
for alternates to be ready to fill the delegate seats if necessary

* calculating ranked ballot results for different sizes of delegations and 
informing all potential delegates of the possible results

* using the option of proxies at the national meeting to give the state party 
additional flexibility in making contingency plans.

Thank you for your cooperation and consideration of the various needs within the 
party.

-Aram Falsafi
chair, GPUS Apportionment Standing Committee
on behalf of the GPUS Apportionment Standing Committee



State Number of votes
Alabama 2
Alaska 2
Arizona 2
Arkansas 2
California 42
Colorado 3
Connecticut 4
Delaware 2
District of Columbia 4
Florida 4
Georgia 2
Hawaii 2
Idaho 2
Illinois 10
Indiana 2
Iowa 2
Kansas 2
Louisiana 2
Maine 9
Maryland 4
Massachussetts 8
Michigan 6
Minnesota 4
Mississippi 2
Missouri 2
Montana 2
Nebraska 2
Nevada 2
New Jersey 4
New Mexico 2
New York 9
North Carolina 2
Ohio 3
Oklahoma 2
Oregon 7
Pennsylvania 8
Rhode Island 2
South Carolina 2
Tennessee 2
Texas 7
Utah 2
Vermont 2
Virginia 2
Washington 3
Wisconsin 6
Wyoming 2


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    Tim McKee cell (860) 778-1304 or (860) 643-2282
   National Committee Member of the Green Party(Connecticut)





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