[This 14Sep2023 temporary post has been updated in parts, recognising that all 10 quora were met by the planned close of polls, Sa30Sep.
[Note, National Elections Supervisor Renée ‘safe pair of hands’ Peñaloza closed these polls one hour early, at midnight EDT, Sa30Sep. Her timetable, on the NES’ homepage, https://elections.pacifica.org, says “September 30[:] Voting Phase Closes at 11:59 PM EST” (bold added). Renée, unfortunately, has been in winter time for quite a while now (hope she doesn’t file an unsafe workplace suit), having made this mistake x3 before (the 2020 & 2021 by-laws referenda, & the 2021 delegates’ pseudo-elections) – and none of the 120 Pacifica delegates, neither then nor now, has publicly pointed out this recurring error. Minions from PacificaWatch have, but what’s new?]
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Have peeps been deluded into thinking that the NES’ website is giving the total number of votes cast, & the numbers needed for quora?
After 2wks of voting, the NES posted a voting counter, finally disclosing some info on the ballots cast (to date?) & the membership (at 30June2023). And on 14Sep2023, the NES finally disclosed the 10-way station split, re both membership & ballots cast. However, the info, on the NES’ homepage, is ambiguous – and the NES has said nothing to avoid this. There are question marks concerning both the counter & the table. [UPDATE: there ended up being 7 tables – all at https://mega.nz/folder/8AlC1bpb#kYZ1wmvc-nr4FIv1kW5a1w.] Two obvious questions: is it a real-time counter? do the counter & table include the cast paper ballots?
https://elections.pacifica.org
The counter: it’s provided by the “ElectionBuddy online voting system”, so how can the cast paper ballots be included?
ElectionBuddy, Inc. say, not surprisingly given the digitising of RealWorld, “we created an online election system with [sic] that could be accessed affordably, using desktop computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet […] Our cloud based voting platform […] our ElectionBuddy online voting system”. So no murdered trees.
https://electionbuddy.com/about/ . . .
Monitoring the counter shows that it usually increases in dribs & drabs, but come Monday, & even Tuesday, there seem to be batch-entries, of a hundred or so. A real-time counter? Almost certainly not.
The table: does it include the paper ballots cast? Presumably, but the NES doesn’t say so. But then at no time has the NES shown that she’s on top of the paper ballots, even doing basics, such as maintaining public counters on the split between online & paper ballots cast, & on the # of paper ballots requested, approved, & sent out. Doing so would at least give the right impression –
but that’s dangerous: as PacificaWatch has always stressed, disclosure allows accountability, & that exposes decision-makers & officeholders to scrutiny, significantly reducing their control of the situation.
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It’s no surprise that none of the 120 Pacifica delegates has publicly asked these questions.
Oh.
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