Teller's Report
2021 PNB Officers Elections
February 4, 2021
Public Tally Online via Zoom
RESULTS
SUMMARY
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2021 PNB
Officers
PNB Chair: Alex Steinberg ELECTED -- 1st round
PNB Vice-Chair: Sandra Rawline
ELECTED -- 1st round
PNB Secretary: Polina Vasiliev ELECTED -- 1st
round
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ELECTORS
The following twenty-two persons were recognized as members of the Pacifica National Board with
standing to vote. They were sent electronic ballots and voting instructions by PNB Secretary Pro-Tem Nancy Sorden on
Jan 29, 2021, at 8:27 PM Pacific Time:
Ali Lexa, Andrea Turner, Chris Cory, Wayne Bruce, DeWayne Lark, Julie
Hewitt, Heather Gray, Sabrina Jacobs, James Sagurton, Tom Voorhees, Lawrence Reyes, Jose Gutierrez, Jr., Lynden Foley,
Elizabeth von Gunten, Alex Steinberg, Shawn Rhodes, Ralph Pointer, Ron Pinchback, Sandra Rawline, Vanessa Dixon-Briggs,
Wally James, James Osborne.
Nineteen directors responded with valid ballots consolidating the three Officer
elections, but a ballot will count as invalid in any individual contest where the voter did not rank any
candidate.
BALLOT VARIANCES
One ballot was sent to one ballot recipient and not the other. The error
was noted prior to the close of polls.
DIRECTOR COMPLAINTS
No voter complaints were received by the
tellers.
WRITE-INS AND INCOMPLETE ELECTIONS
No write-in votes were received. No election was
incomplete.
PUBLIC TALLY
Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the public tally was held online on
Thursday, February 4, 2021 rather than in person. Notice of the tally was posted on the Pacifica Monthly View on
Januarty 29, 2021. Terry Goodman was connected as Remote Teller and John Garry III was connected as Secondary Ballot
Recipient.
BALLOT IDENTIFIERS
Each voter selected a code for their ballot. The user codes are
included (bracketed) in the ChoicePlus Pro input files for each election. Voters can confirm that their votes were
properly recorded by examining these input files, as explained below.
BALLOT DATA FILES
The ChoicePlus
Pro input files used in the remote tally of these elections are included below, along with a Detail Report for each
election. Voters can confirm that the candidate ranking on their ballot matches that on the input files in reference to
the four-letter candidate code assigned near the top of each input file. For example, here is a truncated sample input
file from a previous year's elections:
# PNB Committee CPPro Configuration File
.TITLE 2017 PNB Coordinating
Cmte - KPFA Director
.ELECT 1
.CONTEST "2017_PNB_Coord_KPFA"
.CANDIDATE CAMP, "Bill Campisi
(WI)"
.CANDIDATE JACO, "Sabrina Jacobs (WI)"
.CANDIDATE TURN, "Andrea Turner-Dyson (WI)"
5) [80101]
CAMP
9) [COSMO] JACO
We can tell from the above that there were three write-in candidates in the election for
the KPFA Director seat on the PNB Coordinating Committee in 2017, that the vote on ballot 5 with user code 80101 went to
Bill Campisi, and that the vote on ballot 9 with user code COSMO went to Sabrina
Jacobs.
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# PNB Officer
CPPro Configuration File
# Terry Goodman, Remote Teller
# John Garry III, Secondary Ballot Recipient
.TITLE
2021 PNB Chair
#.STATISTICS-ON
.ELECT 1
.CONTEST "2021_1_PNB_Chair"
.CANDIDATE REYE, "Lawrence
Reyes"
.CANDIDATE STEI, "Alex Steinberg"
.BALLOT-FORMAT-FIELDS BALLOT-ID-NUMERIC IGNORE-FIELD
RANKINGS-ALPHA
### Tally 2/04/2021
1) [12957] REYE
2) [1544Z] STEI
3) [3th1cs] STEI
4) [91360]
STEI
5) [AUST70] STEI, REYE
6) [BOGO9] REYE, STEI
7) [BOHIO] REYE
8) [c1a2y] STEI
9) [cement]
STEI
10) [cygnus] STEI
11) [DEDER] REYE
12) [GUMMI] REYE
13) [neerG7] STEI
14) [nonsense] STEI
15)
[OS71!] STEI
16) [PHASE] STEI
17) [STATUS] REYE
18) [Turl] REYE
19) [TWEHR]
STEI
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2021 PNB
Chair
CANDIDATES:
Lawrence Reyes
Alex Steinberg
ELECTION RULES:
System: Instant
Runoff Voting
Threshold Type: Droop
Simultaneous Drop: When mathematically inevitable
Ties: 1) Random (by coin toss)
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19 valid
ballots.
Electing 1 candidate.
Winning threshold is 10 votes.
There were no invalid ballots.
(19 total
ballots
processed.)
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ROUND
1 -- Tally of 1st place votes.
CANDIDATE THIS ROUND TOTAL
STATUS
----------------------- ------------- ------------- ----------------------
Alex Steinberg
+12.00000 12.00000 ELECTED -- 1st round
Lawrence Reyes +7.00000 7.00000 DEFEATED -- 1st
round
EXHAUSTED PILE: 0.00000 0.00000
TOTALS: +19.00000
19.00000
-- Alex Steinberg has been ELECTED because s/he has met the threshold.
-- Lawrence Reyes is
declared DEFEATED, because all of the seats have been
filled.
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ELECTION
COUNT SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
Terry Goodman, Remote Teller
John Garry III, Assistant Teller
Witnesses
(Unconfirmed): Alex Steinberg, Janet Kobren, Ralph Pointer,
Nancy Sorden, Sandra Rawline, Eric
Thursday,
February 4, 2021
ChoicePlus Pro -- Version 2.3.4
(c) 1993-2009 Voting Solutions -- All Rights
Reserved
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#
PNB Officer CPPro Configuration File
# Terry Goodman, Remote Teller
# John Garry III, Secondary Ballot
Recipient
.TITLE 2021 PNB Vice Chair
#.STATISTICS-ON
.ELECT 1
.CONTEST
"2021_2_PNB_Vice_Chair"
.CANDIDATE LARK, "DeWayne Lark"
.CANDIDATE RAWL, "Sandra
Rawline"
.BALLOT-FORMAT-FIELDS BALLOT-ID-NUMERIC IGNORE-FIELD RANKINGS-ALPHA
### Tally 2/04/2021
1) [12957] LARK
2) [1544Z] RAWL
3) [3th1cs] RAWL
4) [91360] RAWL
5) [AUST70] RAWL, LARK
6) [BOGO9]
LARK, RAWL
7) [BOHIO] LARK
8) [c1a2y] RAWL
9) [cement] RAWL
10) [cygnus] RAWL
11) [DEDER] LARK
12)
[GUMMI] LARK
13) [neerG7] RAWL
14) [nonsense] RAWL
15) [OS71!] RAWL
16) [PHASE] RAWL
17) [STATUS]
LARK
18) [Turl] RAWL, LARK
19) [TWEHR]
LARK
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2021 PNB Vice
Chair
CANDIDATES:
DeWayne Lark
Sandra Rawline
ELECTION RULES:
System: Instant
Runoff Voting
Threshold Type: Droop
Simultaneous Drop: When mathematically inevitable
Ties: 1) Random (by coin toss)
--------------------------------------------------
19 valid
ballots.
Electing 1 candidate.
Winning threshold is 10 votes.
There were no invalid ballots.
(19 total
ballots
processed.)
--------------------------------------------------
********************************************************************************
ROUND
1 -- Tally of 1st place votes.
CANDIDATE THIS ROUND TOTAL
STATUS
----------------------- ------------- ------------- ----------------------
Sandra Rawline
+12.00000 12.00000 ELECTED -- 1st round
DeWayne Lark +7.00000 7.00000 DEFEATED -- 1st
round
EXHAUSTED PILE: 0.00000 0.00000
TOTALS: +19.00000
19.00000
-- Sandra Rawline has been ELECTED because s/he has met the threshold.
-- DeWayne Lark is
declared DEFEATED, because all of the seats have been
filled.
********************************************************************************
ELECTION
COUNT SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
Terry Goodman, Remote Teller
John Garry III, Assistant Teller
Witnesses
(Unconfirmed): Alex Steinberg, Janet Kobren, Ralph Pointer,
Nancy Sorden, Sandra Rawline, Eric
Thursday,
February 4, 2021
ChoicePlus Pro -- Version 2.3.4
(c) 1993-2009 Voting Solutions -- All Rights
Reserved
********************************************************************************
********************************************************************************
#
PNB Officer CPPro Configuration File
# Terry Goodman, Remote Teller
# John Garry III, Secondary Ballot
Recipient
.TITLE 2021 PNB Secretary
#.STATISTICS-ON
.ELECT 1
.CONTEST
"2021_3_PNB_Secretary"
.CANDIDATE VASI, "Polina Vasiliev"
.BALLOT-FORMAT-FIELDS BALLOT-ID-NUMERIC
IGNORE-FIELD RANKINGS-ALPHA
### Tally 2/04/2021
1) [12957] VASI
2) [1544Z] VASI
3) [3th1cs]
VASI
4) [91360]
5) [AUST70] VASI
6) [BOGO9] VASI
7) [BOHIO] VASI
8) [c1a2y]
9) [cement]
10)
[cygnus] VASI
11) [DEDER]
12) [GUMMI]
13) [neerG7] VASI
14) [nonsense]
15) [OS71!]
16) [PHASE]
17) [STATUS] VASI
18) [Turl]
19) [TWEHR]
VASI
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2021 PNB
Secretary
CANDIDATES:
Polina Vasiliev
ELECTION RULES:
System: Instant Runoff
Voting
Threshold Type: Droop
Simultaneous Drop: When mathematically inevitable
Ties: 1) Random (by coin toss)
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10 valid
ballots.
Electing 1 candidate.
Winning threshold is 6 votes.
There were 9 invalid ballots.
(19 total ballots
processed.)
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ROUND
1 -- Tally of 1st place votes.
CANDIDATE THIS ROUND TOTAL
STATUS
----------------------- ------------- ------------- ----------------------
Polina Vasiliev
+10.00000 10.00000 ELECTED -- 1st round
EXHAUSTED PILE: 0.00000 0.00000
TOTALS:
+10.00000 10.00000
-- Polina Vasiliev has been ELECTED because s/he has met
the
threshold.
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ELECTION
COUNT SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
Terry Goodman, Remote Teller
John Garry III, Assistant Teller
Witnesses
(Unconfirmed): Alex Steinberg, Janet Kobren, Ralph Pointer,
Nancy Sorden, Sandra Rawline, Eric
Tuesday,
February 2, 2021
ChoicePlus Pro -- Version 2.3.4
(c) 1993-2009 Voting Solutions -- All Rights Reserved