Aug 24th Meeting, NC Board of Elections, Renaissance Hotel, Asheville
Submitted by mbrock49 on Wed, 08/18/2010 - 3:33pm
NOTICE OF MEETING
The State Board of Elections will meet in the Ballroom (first floor) of the Renaissance Hotel, 31 Woodfin Street, Asheville, N.C. on August 24, 2010, at 9:00 a.m. For further information on this meeting please call Johnnie McLean at (919) 715-1790 or Don Wright at (919) 715-5333.
TENTATIVE AGENDA
I was told today by Legal Director, John Rittelmeyer, of Disability Rights NC, that a member of his staff would also be present at the meeting to provide info on Accessibility of Polling Places for persons with disabilities. Correction: Not on the Agenda, just manning an information table and "mixing and mingling."
For info contact Steve Noblitt, an Asheville Advocate for DRNC,at the general DRNC number: 1-877-235-4210.
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Call to Order Chairman Larry Leake 9:00 am
Approval of minutes
Report and possible action on air travel of 2004 and 2008 Gubernatorial candidates
Consideration of treatment of Subchapter S Corporations in Campaign Finance Reporting
Proposed Confession of Civil Judgment by Treasurer of the Mike Easley Committee
Appeal - Wake County Board of Elections use of Town of Apex One-stop site
Appeal - Plans of Implementation for One-stop sites: Guilford and Pitt County Board of Elections
Requests for Grants for One-stop Plans of County Boards of Elections
Request from Wake County Board of Elections for Hardware Maintenance Plan
Pamlico County Board of Elections update
Possible State Board funding to county boards of elections for ballot coding for November 2, 2010 Election
State Board providing Election Day Support for November 2, 2010 Election
Issues as to Superior Court District 28 Ballot
Set filing for now vacant Wynn Court of Appeals seat and related issues
Request from Watauga County as to number of ballots to be printed as to 8/31/10 special election
Appointment of new county board members to currently vacant seats
they will finally tell us how they will tally IRV
since our voting systems cant handle it, and since IRV is not additive.
How will it be done for a statewide election?
Will there be one ballot for IRV contests and another for regular contests?
What about in DRE counties?
How will voters react to using two different election methods in one election? It didn't work out well for Scotland when they ran their first STV (cousin of IRV) election along with their regular election methods. They had 100,000 spoiled ballots.
What about voter education?
How will the election be audited?
Will the election be transparent? So far IRV pilots have not reported all vote data and in Hendersonville we requested but did not get ANY of the data for voters 2nd and 3rd choices.
No state in the country has attempted a statewide IRV election and few small jurisdictions handle it well.
Some hope that there will only be 2 candidates for Wynn's seat. Will a 1 week filing period be long enough for all candidates to file?
Will this attract a greater field since there is no primary?
My hope is that we will have some transparency in the vote tallying, but also that the SBoE does not use uncertified illegal voting software or systems.