Schedule:
The on-line convention for Utah’s senate race began today[Feb 23], and will continue until the endorsement voting process is completed.
Membership Census:
There are 1,100 members exactly who are eligible to vote for our 2010 Utah Senate endorsement.
On-line Convention Goal & Process:
The goal is for all members to have one place to go to gather all the information they need prior to casting their endorsement votes.
Beginning now, all members are encouraged to watch the debate videos; and/or ask questions directly to the candidates, and/or debate the pros and cons of the 4 candidates openly on the Utah Group page of the NING site.
Basic Courtesy Expected:
Please refrain from ad-hominem attacks: Comment on whatever issues are raised, NOT on the person who is raising the issue.
Please find and use appropriate threads for whatever comments you post.
Candidate Q & A Threads:
There will be a specific thread given to each candidate for you to post questions directly to each candidate. These threads are only for you to post a question, and to read the candidates reply…these threads are NOT for you to debate the candidate or their answers. (there are plenty of other threads for you to debate upon).
Please ask a question for a candidate only once, (i.e. if you see that someone else has asked your question please do not ask the same question.)
Please do not take it upon yourself to answer questions on behalf of the candidate, even if you feel you know the candidates response. Each candidate has been asked to either answer the questions themselves or to designate ONE person to answer the questions for them.
Where to find important threads:
On the NING site, each time someone makes a comment on a thread, that thread moves to the top of the list. There is no way for anyone to control which threads stay on top.
Also, the NING site only displays the last 3 threads commented on, but there are many more threads existing than are showing on the Utah page.
Therefore, here is a link for you to find ALL of the discussions listed, plus a link to videos of the I-caucus sponsored candidate debate held on Jan. 15th, 2010:
1) To find a list of ALL threads: http://icaucus.ning.com/group/utah/forum
2) To watch the candidate debate video: http://icaucus.ning.com/group/utah/forum/topics/view-the-utah-senatorial
Endorsement Voting Schedule:
1 - The vote will happen by electronic coin identification code so we can control that members are not simply voting from several different computers for the same person. In order to become the certified endorsed candidate for Icaucus, a candidate must receive approval from 70% of the membership, and we will have up to 3 rounds of voting.
2 - Round 1 voting will commence with 4 candidates on Friday Feb.26th, and will end 3 days later at 11:59pm on Monday March 1st. If 70% consensus is not achieved, the candidate who receives the fewest votes will not advance to the second round.
3 - Round 2 voting will commence with the 3 remaining candidates on Tuesday March 2nd, and will end 3 days later at 11:59pm on Friday March 5th. If 70% consensus is not achieved, the candidate who receives the fewest votes will not advance to the third round.
4 - Round 3 voting will commence with the 2 remaining candidates on Saturday March 6th, and will end 3 days later at 11:59pm on Tuesday March 9th. If 70% consensus is not achieved, we will not endorse a candidate until after the convention. If this is the case, all materials and communications produced by Icaucus from that point forward will state that all 4 candidates are worthy of replacing Senator Bob Bennett.
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CHANGES MADE AFTER JAMES WILLIAMS DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE
A possible total of 3 Rounds were originally planned before James Williams dropped out. Once James Williams dropped out, it reduced the maximum possible rounds to just 2 rounds.
This round...Round 1...ends tomorrow night, Sunday 2/28 at 11:59 pm
If a candidate gets 70% of member votes in round 1 (which is very unlikely), then the endorsement process is complete and we will have our endorsed candidate.
If no candidate gets 70%, (which is most likely), then the lowest vote getter does not advance to round 2, and we vote again in round 2 for the remaining 2 candidates.
Round 2 begins Monday 3/1 and ends at 11:59pm on Thursday 3/4
If one of the 2 remaining candidates in round 2 gets 70% of member votes, they will be the endorsed candidate.
If neither candidate gets 70% of the vote in round 2, we will not endorse anyone until after the convention.
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