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Friend --
Please welcome your MGP 2021-2022 Officers!
Below are the official election results for our Maryland Green
Party officers.
- Co-Chairs: Mary Rooker and Olivia
Romano
- Recording Secretary: Katherine
Mays
- Treasurer: Devonie
Doles
- Membership Coordinator: Matt Hand
and Justin Sindall
- Delegates: Ashley Esposito,
Margaret Flowers, Mary Rooker
- Alternate Delegates: Devonie
Doles, Olivia Romano, and None of the Above
MGP is considering how to handle potentially filling the “none of
the above” winner for alternate delegate. We hope to engage in
internal dialogue around that.
As is our party's practice, these results were presented by our
outgoing co-chairs, Jon Cook and Virginia Rodino. We acknowledge
disagreement in the tabulation of votes for the contested multi-seat
races. Conflicting counting procedures were posted, so we called in
non-partisan experts with the League of Women Voters, FairVote, and
the national Green Party. Fortunately we were assured that our ballots
were very sound, as were the tabulation rules printed on each voter's
ballot:
“Results will be determined by ranked-choice voting and
single transferable vote. You may rank as many or as few choices as
you wish (i.e. if there are three candidates, you can assign ranks of
1, 2, and 3 or only 1 and 2 or 1 only)”
This experience has strengthened our understanding of ranked choice
voting (RCV). Among the lessons learned is the need to define our
voting procedures more precisely.
Get Involved - Renewed Local Actions
Exciting activities are being planned for this year. We’re working
with locals to lift up local issues with special events, speakers,
direct actions and more. As restrictions are lifting, we are
tentatively planning some in-person local events. Check
in with your local today to see what is being scheduled!
Aren't yet a Green Party member? Join
here.
As one of your co-chairs, I look forward to building our party with
Liv and our new team of officers. Given that we’re The Party with real
solutions to our multiple crises -- systemic racism, general wealth
inequality, and the climate catastrophe -- this is our time.
Mary Rooker, MGP Co-Chair
Maryland Green Party
http://www.mdgreens.org/
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