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Best Show on the air right now (pt II)
Streaming footage of the canvassing board
This is awesome. Truly amazing to listen to.
UPDATE: Observe how they handle the votes on these. It's really quite a remarkable example of how "motion-second-discussion-vote" can work as the mechanism of considering the actions of a board or voting organization. It moves the whole process into a realm of strictly business and dispassionate professionalism, rather than every position ("aye in favor" or "aye opposed") being reached at some great personal cost by the person taking it or a person feeling like they put something at grave risk by taking a position. It's very illuminating.
It's something that some of you out there know I'm very hyper about (yes, you) and this is a great example of how moving something for consideration and then deliberating on it can be done quickly and without fear of harm to the person placing it nor the persons taking a stance in favor or opposed. Ritchie moves these things, and then if they are rejected, he puts out a different motion. No harm no foul. You can conduct your business just like this, perhaps at a smaller scale during your business session (i.e. not considering 1600 pieces of business at your average meeting!)
My only tickytack concern is I can't hear the seconds all the time. I assume they must have either a house rule/suspension of the rules in place; that or whoever seconds those motions is doing so away from a mic.
This is awesome. Truly amazing to listen to.
UPDATE: Observe how they handle the votes on these. It's really quite a remarkable example of how "motion-second-discussion-vote" can work as the mechanism of considering the actions of a board or voting organization. It moves the whole process into a realm of strictly business and dispassionate professionalism, rather than every position ("aye in favor" or "aye opposed") being reached at some great personal cost by the person taking it or a person feeling like they put something at grave risk by taking a position. It's very illuminating.
It's something that some of you out there know I'm very hyper about (yes, you) and this is a great example of how moving something for consideration and then deliberating on it can be done quickly and without fear of harm to the person placing it nor the persons taking a stance in favor or opposed. Ritchie moves these things, and then if they are rejected, he puts out a different motion. No harm no foul. You can conduct your business just like this, perhaps at a smaller scale during your business session (i.e. not considering 1600 pieces of business at your average meeting!)
My only tickytack concern is I can't hear the seconds all the time. I assume they must have either a house rule/suspension of the rules in place; that or whoever seconds those motions is doing so away from a mic.
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1) There is a well set agenda, which it appears all 5 members of the canvassing board have a copy of before the meeting (those binders everyone is flipping through) and they know what is coming up next. This is key to move through any number of topics quickly, especially when there's 1600+ agenda items!
2) I'm assuming here, from what I can see, that the person recording the minutes of the meeting (and the results of all of the votes by the 5 members) is not Mark Ritchie or anyone else on the canvassing board. It's probably a staffer off screen that we can't see and who doesn't even look at the ballots. But the key is, the person taking the minutes is NOT running the meeting.
Both these things help them move through 1600+ ballots quickly. The board members know what what the agenda is before the meeting starts and none of them have to worry about recording the minutes for later review.
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