Last updated on June 26, 2024
Against the vote of the LNC’s own Treasurer, the LNC elected Patrick Mitchell as its new Assistant Treasurer. The Assistant Treasurer allows the LNC to continue to raise and spend money if something happens to the Treasurer.
The candidates were Chris Minoletti and Patrick Mitchell. According to the opavote display at the time the results were announced:
Minoletti received 4 votes, namely the votes of LNC Treasurer Redpath, LNC Vice Chair Rutherford and LNC members Darr and Nanna.
Patrick Mitchell received 11 votes, namely the votes of LNC Chair McArdle, LNC Secretary Harlos, and LNC members Bost, Dassing, Ford, Garcia, Haman, Hays, McGee, Nekhaila, Vinson, Watkins, and Yeniscavich.
No other votes were cast.
Addendum: As Mr. Jacobs correctly notes, see below, while the official record counts 11 votes, there appear to be 13 names there. See
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yPeQmj1CzHh4gvSZV7ZoDfXOU3kcdgy2/edit?gid=1939582631#gid=1939582631
for the actual official vote.
And in the end the opavote output was updated, showing that there were indeed 13 votes for Patrick Mitxhell.
“The Assistant Treasurer allows the LNC to continue to raise and spend money if something happens to the Treasurer.”
That sounds ominous.
That’s an FEC procedural rule. Every recent LNC has done this.
It is if that person is also treasurer for a PAC.
Seems like a likely violation of the FEC regs against PACs and Political Parties coordinating their activities.
Ah, the count is 13 for Mitchell and 4 for Minoletti.
As a friend of mine says, “Math is hard.” Copy and pasting is easy, however.
The official count, however, is 11. See below. Apparently the LNC is now using base 12 arithmetic.
Cut and paste shows
ELECT ASSISTANT TREASURER
BALLOT NUMBER: 20240613-01
VOTING METHOD: Vote for one per OpaVote. Majority required. 17 ballots cast.
CANDIDATE VOTE TOTALS LNC RECORDED VOTES
Chris Minoletti 4 Darr, Nanna, Redpath, Rutherford
Patrick Mitchell 11 Bost, Dassing, Ford, Garcia, Haman, Harlos, Hays, McArdle, McGee, Nekhaila, Vinson, Watkins, Yeniscavich
NOTA 0
Patrick Mitchell was elected as Assistant Treasurer.