2016 Pacifica Delegates Elections Ballots Recount Report
INTRODUCTION
The results of the 2016 Pacifica Delegates Elections were certified by TrueBallot, Inc. in October, 2016. Comprehensive recounts of the ballots using Pacifica’s licensed copy of ChoicePlus Pro (versions 2.3.2 and 2.3.4) have since been conducted by Terry L. Goodman, an experienced Pacifica elections teller. Although some serious problems were identified, the recounts essentially confirmed the accuracy of the certified results. Additional alternates were identified in several of the elections, although the eligibility of some write-in candidates has still not been confirmed.
RULES CONTEXT
With the adoption of new bylaws in 2003 in settlement of multiple lawsuits, the Pacifica Foundation became a membership corporation comprised of two membership classes. Voters in the Listener-Sponsor and Staff member classes from each of five radio station areas periodically elect Local Delegates, and these Delegates annually elect most of the Foundation’s Directors. Proportional representation through a Single Transferable Voting methodology (STV) is used in the election of station area Delegates. The Pacifica Bylaws include definitions of the member classes, eligibility and term limit rules, and an election timeline, mostly in Articles Three and Four. The voting methodology is detailed in Article Fifteen. For rules not specified by statute or bylaws, Pacifica’s parliamentary authority as specified in Article Sixteen is Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised, as periodically amended.
DELEGATE ALTERNATES
Pacifica’s bylaws do not specify any minimum level of voter support required for election as a Delegate. Its STV rules prioritize the filling of all available seats, such that a candidate may theoretically be elected who has received zero votes. Moreover, the defeated candidates in each Delegates election are retained as a pool of alternates used for the filling of future Delegate seat vacancies that may occur between scheduled elections (see Article Four, Section 10). When an alternate is seated, he or she inherits the term of the Delegate who he or she has replaced and serves out the remainder of that term.
WRITE-IN CANDIDATES
Pacifica’s bylaws do not clearly specify that nomination is required for election as a Delegate, and its parliamentary authority clearly allows election via write-in votes without nomination, provided that any such write-in candidate is eligible for election. As described above, the alternate pool is used to fill Delegate vacancies as they arise, and this includes unelected write-in candidates — even those with a single last-place ranking on a single voter’s ballot. Nominated candidates are presumably vetted by Local Election Supervisors in cooperation with station membership departments to confirm their eligibility for election in the membership class in which they were nominated. When a voter exercises his or her right to write-in the name of a person not nominated, however, this bypasses the usual candidate eligibility check by election supervisors. Absent ready access to the confidential membership rolls as they existed on the election record date, the eligibility of write-in candidates cannot be confirmed.
RECOUNT CHRONOLOGY AND AUTHORITY
In its initial tallies for the 2016 Pacifica Delegates elections, TrueBallot aggregated all the write-in votes of each election into single virtual candidates. If the virtual candidate was eliminated with all write-in votes combined, then it was clear that no individual write-in candidate had obtained enough votes to be elected in the contest and that all write-in candidates would be eliminated by the final tally round. If the virtual candidate could achieve election, then the write-in candidates with the most chance of achieving election were disaggregated from the virtual candidate to see exactly how well the individual candidate did. The partial disaggregation of write-in votes was adequate to determine the winners in each election; but, since all write-in candidates eligible for election in the Pacifica Delegate contests presumably qualify for inclusion in the corresponding Delegate alternate pools, full disaggregation of the write-in candidates should have been required of the election vendor.
2016 PNB Secretary Janet Kobren identified various anomalies in the preliminary election results from TrueBallot and/or the National Election Supervisor and brought these to the attention of the Pacifica National Board, which in a motion adopted on December 13, 2016 authorized the National Elections Supervisor to arrange a recount. On December 20, 2016, Lydia Brazon, Pacifica’s interim Executive Director, authorized 2016 PNB Secretary Janet Kobren to gather membership status and membership class verification information from the station General Managers to help identify which write-in candidates were eligible for election in each contest and which were not. On January 5, 2017, Secretary Kobren produced an initial analysis of ballot write-in data received from the election vendor demonstrating that the Delegate alternates pools were incomplete. She subsequently produced an updated version on January 20, 2017, with additional information provided by station General Managers.
On January 5, 2017, the PNB directed the public posting of ballot data and authorized the iED to solicit assistance from a balanced team of volunteers to reprocess the votes. On January 12, 2017, the PNB authorized iED Brazon to contract with someone to perform a recount of the 2016 Delegates elections ballots, with all valid write-ins disaggregated. Terry Goodman contacted iED Brazon with an offer of volunteered services in response to the January 12th PNB motion.
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN THE RECOUNT PROCESS
In December, 2016, the election services vendor, TrueBallot, Inc., mailed the 2016 PNB Secretary the original paper ballots, web ballot data, and paper ballot images. In examining ballot data for the recount, it became apparent to the Recount Teller that through an apparent Optical Character Recognition (OCR) template configuration error, data beyond the sixth ranking on the paper ballots had been ignored in every TrueBallot-tallied 2016 Delegates election. Although a rescan of the paper ballots with corrected OCR templates was the most efficient route to correction, individual examination of all ballot images allowed for the human interpretation of unexpected ballot markings relevant to a correct understanding of voter intent, so the latter method was used by Goodman in crafting amended input files for the recount tallies. One of the most common errors encountered on paper ballots was the failure of the voter to fill in a ranking column bubble on the row corresponding to one or more write-in candidate names. On the presumption that a voter would not bother to write-in a person’s name unless his or her intent was to rank the candidate so identified, unranked write-in candidates were assigned a ranking in this recount, typically a ranking immediately following that of the last ranked candidate on the voter’s ballot. Where a voter indicated a ranking number next to a candidate name outside the scanned territory of the ballot, the voter’s indicated intent was recognized and followed in the recount.
Multiple last-place ties among write-in candidates were encountered in the WPFW Listener Sponsor Delegates election and a single last-place tie was encountered during the WBAI Staff Delegates election. These ties were resolved randomly by the tally software. Being random, a different resolution may be encountered in a subsequent re-tally.
The last problem in finalizing the recount results is in the qualification or disqualification of various write-in candidates. A help request was sent to outgoing iED Brazon on February 10, 2017 and to incoming iED Bill Crosier on February 11, 2017; but these requests were likely ignored during the iED transition. A spreadsheet from TrueBallot was obtained that showed a longer list of “eligible” alternates than was published by the National Elections Supervisor on the Pacifica Elections website, but no details of how eligibility was determined were included.
Most of the January 2017 information from station subscriptions departments, as relayed to 2016 PNB Secretary Kobren by station General Managers, has been incorporated into this recount. However, where a station database manager reported that a 2016 Local Station Board Member was not a Pacifica Member on the election record date, that determination was presumed in this report to be an error caused by the non-reporting of some or all qualifying governance-related volunteer labor (see Pacifica Bylaws Article Three, Section 1(A)(2)).
Through consulting a voter database received from TrueBallot, Inc., examining the list history of Pacifica governance volunteers maintained at the Pacifica Meeting Calendar website (http://kpftx.org/pacalendar), and reviewing correspondence with the 2016 PNB Secretary who maintained the 2016 Delegates list data, the Recount Teller was able to verify the eligibility or ineligibility of most of the 186 unique write-in-only candidates in the five Listener Sponsor Delegates elections and all of the 44 unique write-in-only candidates in the five Staff Delegates elections.
In the opinion of the Recount Teller, candidates listed in this report as ELECTED or DEFEATED in a particular contest were eligible for election in that contest. In the opinion of the Recount Teller, candidates listed as EXCLUDED in a particular contest were not eligible for election in that contest. The reasons for candidate exclusions are summarized in headings above corresponding .EXCLUDE-CANDIDATE commands in one of the ChoicePlus Pro input files which accompany this report. In most but not all cases the candidate exclusion reason is additionally indicated by a two-character code inserted in front of the candidate’s name. It was assumed that the candidates whose names appeared on printed ballots in these elections were verified by a Local Election Supervisor as eligible for election. A final request for outstanding eligibility verification information on 24 write-in candidates went out to General Managers in early April, 2017, but no new information was received. In the event of a future Delegate vacancy for which a 2016 Delegates election runner-up will be offered a seat, unverified candidates (flagged as “NV” in these results) should be excluded unless proof of eligibility is provided.
— Terry L. Goodman, Recount Teller
July 22, 2017
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PROPOSED PNB RESOLUTION:
Whereas, the certified results of the 2016 Pacifica Delegates elections do not include complete sequential listings of runner-up candidates for use in the filling of Delegate vacancies as they may occur;
And Whereas, on December 13, 2016, the PNB authorized that a recount of the 2016 Delegates election ballots be conducted, mostly due to irregularities in the handling of write-in votes;
Be It Therefore Resolved, that the alternate lists provided by the Recount Teller in his “2016 Pacifica Delegates Elections Ballots Recount Report” dated July 22, 2017 are approved for use in the identification of eligible alternates for the filling of delegate vacancies in each station area until the next delegates election is completed in that station area, provided that any runner-up so identified must be eligible in the membership class of the vacancy at the time of appointment as well as having been eligible in that membership class on the record date of the original election.
Be It Further Resolved, that the “2016 Pacifica Delegates Elections Ballots Recount Report” and its accompanying data files shall be distributed with this PNB Resolution to Local Station Board Secretaries for their reference and shall be posted for download on the 2016 Pacifica Elections website.
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2016 KPFA Listener Sponsor Delegates Election Results
CANDIDATE RECOUNT STATUS CERTIFIED STATUS
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Carole Travis ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Aki Tanaka ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Andrea J. Turner ELECTED — 2nd round ELECTED
T.M. Scruggs ELECTED — 9th round ELECTED
Carol Wolfley ELECTED — 9th round ELECTED
Christina Huggins ELECTED — 12th round ELECTED
Brian Crowell ELECTED — 12th round ELECTED
Craig Williams ELECTED — 14th round ELECTED
Tom Voorhees ELECTED — 14th round ELECTED
Ahmad Anderson (WI) DEFEATED — 14th round 1st ALTERNATE
Chris Cory DEFEATED — 11th round 2nd ALTERNATE
Marilla Arguelles DEFEATED — 8th round 3rd ALTERNATE
Kris Stewart DEFEATED — 7th round 4th ALTERNATE
Ramses Teon-Nichols DEFEATED — 6th round 5th ALTERNATE
LaTasha Monique Warmsl. DEFEATED — 5th round 6th ALTERNATE
Michael Parenti (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
Dave Heller (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
Rainer Wachalovsky (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
NV Gerald Goldstein (W. DEFEATED — 4th round
Cynthia Johnson (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
Attila Nagy (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
NV Wendy Tarbell (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
NV Andrea Stratton (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
Charles Ciaccio (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
Max Blanchet (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
John Parulis (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
NV Mark Mooney (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
Lynn Orlando (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
Mara Rivera (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
NV Samsarah Morgan (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
Charlie Ridgell (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
Tracy Rosenberg (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
NV Gerald Sanders (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
Richard Phelps (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
Michael J. Sukhov (WI) DEFEATED — 4th round
Yuri Gottesman EXCLUDED
NL Davey D (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Dennis Bernstein (W. EXCLUDED
NL Nanci Armstrong (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Nobody (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Richard Wolinsky (W. EXCLUDED
NL Robert Reich (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Stacy Scott (WI) EXCLUDED
Don Macleay (WI) EXCLUDED
NL United for Communit. EXCLUDED
NL Miguel Molina (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Ralph Nader (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Bernie Sanders (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Alfred E. Newman (W. EXCLUDED
NL Steve Zeltzer (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Oriana Saportas (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Jesse Ventura (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Josiah Alderete (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Kate Raphael (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Ken & Janie Wong (W. EXCLUDED
NL Lisa Dettmer (WI) EXCLUDED
LEGEND:
NL: Not a Local Listener Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
NV: Not verified as a Listener Member on the record date
WI: Write-in
NOTE:
Additional information regarding candidate exclusions may be found near the top of the ChoicePlus Pro input file KPFA-Listener.in.
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2016 KPFA Staff Delegates Election
CANDIDATE RECOUNT STATUS CERTIFIED STATUS
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Richard Wolinsky ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Lewis O. Sawyer ELECTED — 2nd round ELECTED
Josiah Alderete ELECTED — 5th round ELECTED
Lisa Dettmer DEFEATED — 5th round 1st ALTERNATE
Steve Zeltzer DEFEATED — 4th round 2nd ALTERNATE
Kate Raphael DEFEATED — 3rd round 3rd ALTERNATE
Luis Medina (WI) DEFEATED — 3rd round
Philip G. Maldari (WI) DEFEATED — 3rd round
Ann Garrison (WI) DEFEATED — 3rd round
Aileen Alfandary (WI) DEFEATED — 3rd round
Phil Osegueda (WI) DEFEATED — 3rd round
Dennis Roos, Jr. (WI) EXCLUDED
NS Jan Etre (WI) EXCLUDED
Nobody (WI) EXCLUDED
LEGEND:
NS: Not a Staff Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
WI: Write-in
NOTE:
Additional information regarding candidate exclusions may be found near the top of the ChoicePlus Pro input file KPFA-Staff.in.
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2016 KPFK Listener Sponsor Delegates Election
CANDIDATE RECOUNT STATUS CERTIFIED STATUS
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Paul Song ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Lisa Wong ELECTED — 24th round ELECTED
Jaime Gomez ELECTED — 24th round ELECTED
Doug Kriegel ELECTED — 27th round ELECTED
Sandy Childs ELECTED — 27th round ELECTED
Barbara Marbach ELECTED — 28th round ELECTED
Dorothy Reik ELECTED — 29th round ELECTED
Sabina Virgo ELECTED — 33rd round ELECTED
Reza Pour ELECTED — 33rd round ELECTED
Ismael Parra DEFEATED — 32nd round 1st ALTERNATE
Lawrence P. Reyes DEFEATED — 31st round 2nd ALTERNATE
Lance Simmens DEFEATED — 26th round 3rd ALTERNATE
Rob Macon DEFEATED — 23rd round 4th ALTERNATE
Singh I. Bird DEFEATED — 22nd round 5th ALTERNATE
Ralph Hawkins DEFEATED — 21st round 6th ALTERNATE
Jessica Andrea Spencer DEFEATED — 20th round 7th ALTERNATE
Allan Coie DEFEATED — 19th round 8th ALTERNATE
Will Ryan DEFEATED — 18th round 9th ALTERNATE
Mike Mora DEFEATED — 17th round 10th ALTERNATE
Allan Beek DEFEATED — 16th round 11th ALTERNATE
Rose Mary Elizondo DEFEATED — 15th round 13th ALTERNATE
Kahllid A. Al-Alim DEFEATED — 14th round 12th ALTERNATE
Jack Neff DEFEATED — 13th round 14th ALTERNATE
Bella DeSoto DEFEATED — 12th round 15th ALTERNATE
Richard Macias DEFEATED — 11th round 17th ALTERNATE
Charles Fredericks DEFEATED — 10th round 16th ALTERNATE
Alise Sochaczewski DEFEATED — 9th round 18th ALTERNATE
Brenda Medina DEFEATED — 8th round 19th ALTERNATE
Mariella Saba DEFEATED — 7th round 20th ALTERNATE
Brother Cid Williams DEFEATED — 6th round 21st ALTERNATE
Doug Barnett DEFEATED — 5th round 22nd ALTERNATE
Michael A. Corral DEFEATED — 4th round 23rd ALTERNATE
Schyna Pour DEFEATED — 3rd round 24th ALTERNATE
Thomas C. Halle DEFEATED — 2nd round 25th ALTERNATE
Ted Hajjari (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Wendy Lofland (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Erik Hines (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Roger Zimmerman (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Rolando Salmeron (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Rick Chertoff (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Kevin Breslin (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Chuck Anderson (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Robin Doyno (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Hope Foye (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
NV Ed Ward (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Ronald Spriestersbach . DEFEATED — 2nd round
Gregorio G. Chavez (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
John Garner (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Leslie A. Fox EXCLUDED
NL Marlena Bond (WI) EXCLUDED
Michael Novick (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Ian Masters (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Don White (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Nobody (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Roy Tuckman (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Steve Pride (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Steve Weatherwax (W. EXCLUDED
NL Sue Cohen-Johnson (. EXCLUDED
NL Tej Grewall (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Adam Rice (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Polina Vasilev (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Randy Koppang (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Ricardo Hernandez (. EXCLUDED
NL Alan Minsky (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Ali Lexa (WI) EXCLUDED
Mansoor Sabbagh (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Christanne Eastwood. EXCLUDED
LEGEND:
NL: Not a Listener Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
NV: Not verified as a Listener Member on the record date
WI: Write-in
NOTE:
Additional information regarding candidate exclusions may be found near the top of the ChoicePlus Pro input file KPFK-Listener.in.
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2016 KPFK Staff Delegates Election
CANDIDATE RECOUNT STATUS CERTIFIED STATUS
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Ricardo Hernandez ELECTED — 4th round ELECTED
Ali Lexa ELECTED — 6th round ELECTED
Adam Rice ELECTED — 8th round ELECTED
Marlena Bond DEFEATED — 7th round 1st ALTERNATE
Steve Pride DEFEATED — 5th round 2nd ALTERNATE
Polina Vasiliev DEFEATED — 3rd round 3rd ALTERNATE
Steve Weatherwax DEFEATED — 2nd round 4th ALTERNATE
Tej Grewall (WI) DEFEATED — 1st round
Chrisanne Eastwood DEFEATED — 1st round 5th ALTERNATE
Sue Cohen-Johnson DEFEATED — 1st round
Rodrigo Argueta (WI) DEFEATED — 1st round
Teddy Robinson (WI) DEFEATED — 1st round
Mark Maxwell (WI) DEFEATED — 1st round
Chavonne Taylor (WI) DEFEATED — 1st round
NS Paul Song (WI) EXCLUDED
NS Doug Kriegel (WI) EXCLUDED
NS Will Ryan (WI) EXCLUDED
Nobody (WI) EXCLUDED
NS Jaime Gomez (WI) EXCLUDED
LEGEND:
NS: Not a Staff Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
NV: Not verified as a Staff Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
WI: Write-in
NOTE:
Additional information regarding candidate exclusions may be found near the top of the ChoicePlus Pro input file KPFK-Staff.in.
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2016 KPFT Listen Sponsor Delegates Election
CANDIDATE RECOUNT STATUS CERTIFIED STATUS
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Robert L. Mark ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Elaine M. Duncan ELECTED — 9th round ELECTED
Perri McCary ELECTED — 12th round ELECTED
Jim Krafka ELECTED — 16th round ELECTED
Di Conkling ELECTED — 18th round ELECTED
Vaniecia J. Williams ELECTED — 19th round ELECTED
Adriana Casenave ELECTED — 21st round ELECTED
Alexandra Hunter ELECTED — 21st round ELECTED
K.C. Sinclair ELECTED — 21st round ELECTED
Don Cook DEFEATED — 20th round 1st ALTERNATE
Jaime Rodriguez (WI) DEFEATED — 17th round 2nd ALTERNATE
Richard Hyde DEFEATED — 15th round 3rd ALTERNATE
Adrienne LaViolette DEFEATED — 14th round 4th ALTERNATE
Nicolas Economidis DEFEATED — 13th round 5th ALTERNATE
DeWayne Lark DEFEATED — 11th round 6th ALTERNATE
Rita Washington DEFEATED — 10th round 7th ALTERNATE
Rick Potthoff DEFEATED — 8th round 8th ALTERNATE
Matthew Moore DEFEATED — 7th round 9th ALTERNATE
Georgia D. Provost DEFEATED — 6th round 10th ALTERNATE
Todd Buehlman DEFEATED — 5th round 11th ALTERNATE
Alan Alan Apurim DEFEATED — 4th round 13th ALTERNATE
Nancy Saibara-Naritomi DEFEATED — 3rd round 12th ALTERNATE
Wesley Bethune DEFEATED — 2nd round 14th ALTERNATE
Benjamin Perodeau DEFEATED — 2nd round 15th ALTERNATE
Edwin Johnston (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Dennis Simshaeuser (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Paul A. Colby (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
John LaBonte (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
NV Robert D. Hertic (W. DEFEATED — 2nd round
NV Ray Hill (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
NV J. Roppslouer (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Eddie Kerley (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Rizwan A. Raja EXCLUDED
NL Lars Headington (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Marietta Roebuck (W. EXCLUDED
NL Michael Roebuck (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Rhonda Garner (WI) EXCLUDED
Nobody (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Roark Smith (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Joseph Davis (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Michael Woodson (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Robert Gartner (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Vinisha Patel-Adams. EXCLUDED
NL Wally James (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Jeffrey Thames (WI) EXCLUDED
James Perry (Yahconnon) EXCLUDED
NL Egberto Willies (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Hank Lamb (WI) EXCLUDED
Lauren E. Haydu EXCLUDED
LEGEND:
NL: Not a local Listener Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
NV: Not verified as a Listener Member on the record date
WI: Write-in
NOTE:
Additional information regarding candidate exclusions may be found near the top of the ChoicePlus Pro input file KPFT-Listener.in.
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2016 KPFT Staff Delegates Election
CANDIDATE RECOUNT STATUS CERTIFIED STATUS
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Wally James ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Hank Lamb ELECTED — 9th round ELECTED
Robert Gartner ELECTED — 10th round ELECTED
Rhonda Garner DEFEATED — 8th round 1st ALTERNATE
Lars Headington DEFEATED — 7th round 2nd ALTERNATE
Joseph Davis DEFEATED — 6th round
Christopher Whaley DEFEATED — 5th round 3rd ALTERNATE
Marietta Roebuck DEFEATED — 4th round 4th ALTERNATE
Vinisha Patel-Adams DEFEATED — 3rd round 5th ALTERNATE
Michael Roebuck DEFEATED — 2nd round 6th ALTERNATE
Patrick Hoyt (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Egberto Willies (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Akua Holt (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Rick Heysquierdo (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
NS Jaime Rodriguez (WI) EXCLUDED
NS Nicholas Economidis. EXCLUDED
Anthony Cox (WI) EXCLUDED
LEGEND:
NS: Not a Staff Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
NV: Not verified as a Staff Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
WI: Write-in
NOTE:
Additional information regarding candidate exclusions may be found near the top of the ChoicePlus Pro input file KPFT-Staff.in.
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2016 WBAI Listen Sponsor Delegates Election
CANDIDATE RECOUNT STATUS CERTIFIED STATUS
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Frank LeFever ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Sharonne Salaam ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Ken Laufer ELECTED — 2nd round ELECTED
Eugene Hamond ELECTED — 3rd round ELECTED
James Sagurton ELECTED — 4th round ELECTED
Cerene Roberts ELECTED — 5th round ELECTED
Rebecca Naegele ELECTED — 6th round ELECTED
Michael Ochoa ELECTED — 9th round ELECTED
Carl Makower ELECTED — 13th round ELECTED
William Heerwagen DEFEATED — 12th round 1st ALTERNATE
Moira Meltzer-Cohen DEFEATED — 11th round 2nd ALTERNATE
Five Mualimm-ak DEFEATED — 10th round 3rd ALTERNATE
Mario Mastrandrea DEFEATED — 8th round 4th ALTERNATE
Ebon Charles (WI) DEFEATED — 8th round
Thomas Barton (WI) DEFEATED — 8th round
NV Kevin Keating (WI) DEFEATED — 8th round
NV Betty Dopson (WI) DEFEATED — 8th round
NV Bernard White (WI) DEFEATED — 8th round
Ira Wechsler (WI) DEFEATED — 8th round
NV John Kirbow (WI) DEFEATED — 8th round
David Kenney (WI) DEFEATED — 8th round
NV D.L. Hughley (WI) DEFEATED — 8th round
NV Julia Bevak (WI) DEFEATED — 8th round
Dacio A. Quintana EXCLUDED
NL David Salay (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Wuyi Jacobs (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Reggie Johnson (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Bob Lederer (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Amy Goodman (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Mario Murillo (WI) EXCLUDED
Lynne Stewart (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Randy A. Credico (W. EXCLUDED
NL Pickles of the Nort. EXCLUDED
NL Mike Feder (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Richard Wolff (WI) EXCLUDED
NL King Reilly (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Vajra Kilgour (WI) EXCLUDED
NL John Riley (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Max Schmid (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Mitchel Cohen (WI) EXCLUDED
Maxine (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Nobody (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Robert Knight (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Whoopi Goldberg (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Hugh Hamilton (WI) EXCLUDED
NL John Kane (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Juan Gonzalez (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Gary Null (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Mimi Rosenberg (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Chris Hedges (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Kathryn Davis (WI) EXCLUDED
LEGEND:
NL: Not a local Listener Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
NV: Not verified as a Listener Member on the record date
WI: Write-in
NOTE:
Additional information regarding candidate exclusions may be found near the top of the ChoicePlus Pro input file WBAI-Listener.in.
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2016 WBAI Staff Delegates Election
CANDIDATE RECOUNT STATUS CERTIFIED STATUS
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Reggie Johnson ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Vajra Kilgour ELECTED — 7th round ELECTED
Kathy Davis ELECTED — 8th round ELECTED
Max Schmid DEFEATED — 7th round 1st ALTERNATE
John Riley DEFEATED — 6th round 2nd ALTERNATE
John Kane DEFEATED — 5th round 3rd ALTERNATE
Mitchel Cohen DEFEATED — 4th round 4th ALTERNATE
Wuyi Jacobs DEFEATED — 3rd round 6th ALTERNATE
Randy Credico DEFEATED — 2nd round 5th ALTERNATE
David Salay DEFEATED — 1st round 7th ALTERNATE
Janet Coleman (WI) DEFEATED — 1st round
Gloria Browne-Marshall. DEFEATED — 1st round
Michael G. Haskins (WI) DEFEATED — 1st round
NS Tony Bates (WI) EXCLUDED
NV Maxine (WI) EXCLUDED
NS Five Mualimm-ak (WI) EXCLUDED
Shawn Rhodes (WI) EXCLUDED
NS Lynne Stewart (WI) EXCLUDED
NS Cerene Roberts (WI) EXCLUDED
LEGEND:
NS: Not a local Staff Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
NV: Not verified as a Staff Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
WI: Write-in
NOTE:
Additional information regarding candidate exclusions may be found near the top of the ChoicePlus Pro input file WBAI-Staff.in.
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2016 WPFW Listen Sponsor Delegates Election
CANDIDATE RECOUNT STATUS CERTIFIED STATUS
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Gloria Turner ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Meridith P. Cordisco ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Benito Diaz ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Vickie McGill ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Eileen Rosin ELECTED — 2nd round ELECTED
Martha V. Peterson ELECTED — 2nd round ELECTED
Murray ‘Cliff’ Smith (. ELECTED — 27th round ELECTED
NV Christine Cutter (W. ELECTED — 27th round ELECTED
Julie Hewitt (WI) ELECTED — 27th round ELECTED
NV Nancy Alonzo (WI) DEFEATED — 26th round 1st ALTERNATE
Victor Motley (WI) DEFEATED — 25th round
Craig Karp (WI) DEFEATED –- 24th round
Ron Pinchback (WI) DEFEATED — 23st round
Jake Jones (WI) DEFEATED –- 22nd round
Hillary Binder-Alvarez. DEFEATED –- 21st round
NV Lonnie Hall (WI) DEFEATED — 20th round
Bill Starr (WI) DEFEATED — 19th round
Michael Byfield (WI) DEFEATED — 18th round
NL Malcolm Wiseman (WI) DEFEATED — 17th round
NV Lucy Murphy (WI) DEFEATED — 16th round
NV Thomas Skiutey (WI) DEFEATED — 15th round
Rex Paul (WI) DEFEATED — 14th round
Marian Douglas-Ungaro . DEFEATED — 13th round
Ernest Ford (WI) DEFEATED — 12th round
Norman Baylor (WI) DEFEATED — 11th round
Glenda Davis (WI) DEFEATED — 10th round
Jon Youngs (WI) DEFEATED — 9th round
Jon Liss (WI) DEFEATED — 8th round
Mark Berman (WI) DEFEATED — 7th round
Elizabeth Barth (WI) DEFEATED — 7th round
Ron Benjamin (WI) DEFEATED — 7th round
NL Aaron Myers (WI) DEFEATED — 7th round
NV Suzette Gardner (WI) DEFEATED — 7th round
NV Anise Jenkins (WI) DEFEATED — 7th round
Thomas O’Rourke (WI) DEFEATED — 7th round
NL Robert Simms EXCLUDED
NL Angela Mitchell (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Lance Reynolds (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Herb Scott (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Lona K. Alias EXCLUDED
NL Tom Cole (WI) EXCLUDED 2nd ALTERNATE
NL Herman Marshall (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Bernada Bassett (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Nobody (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Brad Grant (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Askia Muhammad (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Bobby Hill (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Kaba Akintunde (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Mwiza Munthali (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Jim Dombrowski (WI) EXCLUDED
NL William Taft (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Quorum Supporter (W. EXCLUDED
NL Michelle Obama (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Grigsby Hubbard (WI) EXCLUDED
NL David Schwartzman (. EXCLUDED
NL Bernie Sanders (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Chanda Causer (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Katia Stitt (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Lydia Brazon (WI) EXCLUDED
NL Arthur McCloud (WI) EXCLUDED 3rd ALTERNATE
NL Sandra Butler-Trues. EXCLUDED
LEGEND:
NL: Not a Listener Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
NV: Not verified as a Listener Member on the record date
WI: Write-in
NOTE:
Additional information regarding candidate exclusions may be found near the top of the ChoicePlus Pro input file WPFW-Listener.in.
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2016 WPFW Staff Delegates Election
CANDIDATE RECOUNT STATUS CERTIFIED STATUS
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Lona Alias ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Sandra Butler-Truesdale ELECTED — 1st round ELECTED
Robb Simms ELECTED — 2nd round ELECTED
Robyn Holden (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Esther Iverem (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Arthur McCloud (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
Miyuki Williams (WI) DEFEATED — 2nd round
NS Eileen Rosin (WI) EXCLUDED
NS Meridith Cordisco (. EXCLUDED
NS Vince McGill (WI) EXCLUDED
NS Martha V. Peterson . EXCLUDED
Tony Leon (WI) EXCLUDED
NS Michael Byfield (WI) EXCLUDED
LEGEND:
NS: Not a local Staff Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
NV: Not verified as a Staff Member on the record date, June 30, 2016
WI: Write-in
NOTE:
Additional information regarding candidate exclusions may be found near the top of the ChoicePlus Pro input file WPFW-Staff.in.
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ADDENDUM 1
Listing of 24 Unverified Write-In Candidates
(as of the date of this Teller’s Report)
Note that all of the candidates below are believed to be unverified Write-ins in the respective station Listener-Sponsor elections and were flagged as “NV” in the above listings of the recount results, except that write-in candidate “Maxine” (no surname) was excluded from the WBAI elections as unidentifiable. Also note that most or all of these names had not been included in TrueBallot’s write-in data files and so were not investigated by 2016 PNB Secretary Janet Kobren.
KPFA Listener-Sponsor Delegates election:
Gerald Goldstein
Wendy Tarbell
Andrea Stratton
Mark Mooney
Samsarah Morgan
Gerald Sanders
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KPFK Listener-Sponsor Delegates election:
Ed Ward
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KPFT Listener-Sponsor Delegates election:
Robert D. Hertic
Ray Hill
Roppslouer
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WBAI Listener-Sponsor Delegates election:
Kevin Keating
Betty Dopson
Bernard White
John Kirbow
D.L. Hughley
Julia Bevak
Maxine (no surname provided)
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WPFW Listener-Sponsor Delegates election:
Christine Cutter
Nancy Alonzo
Lonnie Hall
Thomas Skiutey
Lucy Murphy
Suzette Gardner
Anise Jenkins
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ADDENDUM 2
NOTES ON ATTACHED FILES
To save space, the 2016 ballot images are not attached. At the moment, they are downloadable from http://elections.pacifica.org/documents/ballots. The links there may disappear in preparation for the next elections.
The KPFA Listener-Sponsor Delegates Election input file (for example) is in the attached zip file under
\KPFA\Choice Plus\Listener\KPFA-Listener.in. This is a plain text file, so it may be renamed to KPFA-Listener.txt for convenience. In the same folder are the round-by-round reports in HTML format, and the KPFA-L Detail Report, mostly included in the KPFA section of this Report.
Ballot images that were unreadable in the data received from TrueBallot have been recovered and are found (for example) in \KPFA\TrueBallot\Recovered Images. Also in each station area’s TrueBallot folder are the original TrueBallot lists of runners-up, which are missing several write-in candidates.
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