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message to LWVAL Presidents from Study Chair Sandy Robinson... The LWVAL Off-Site Voting Study is ready for Local Leagues to review, study, discuss and come to consensus. The report from your Local League should be sent to LWVAL by February 1st. There are 7 documents in this Off-Site Voting Study packet....[Divided into the 3 parts below.] Part I - Overview for Members and Consensus Questions... These two documents should be sent to your members as soon as possible to study and review. Members will then be able to come to the consensus meeting prepared to learn more and discuss the consensus questions. You should go ahead and set up meeting times for the Off-Site Voting Study discussion and consensus questions. It is up to the LL’s to decide if this is completed in one or two meetings. The deadline to return all LL consensus information to LWVAL Board is February 1st. -- Download Overview for Members (.pdf or .doc) -- Download Consensus Questions (.pdf or .doc) Part II – Off-Site Voting Study PowerPoint Presentation and Off-Site Voting Study “Notes” We have prepared a PowerPoint Presentation along with a separate document of “Notes” to make your meeting easier. The “Notes” correspond to the slides in the PowerPoint Presentation. The presenter should review the "Notes” ahead of time. They will then be able to click through the slides at the meeting with very little trouble. If you want to print out the slides for the meeting, it is suggested that you select ‘Handouts’ on the print function and select 6 slides per page. -- Download Off-Site Voting Study PowerPoint Presentation (.ppt) -- Download Presentation "Notes" (.pdf or .doc) [Documents below coming soon!] Part III – 3 other documents. Three other documents that you can print off for your members: -- Download LWVUS Voter article, October, 2007 (.pdf or .doc) -- Download Issue Paper from Brennan Center for Justice article (.pdf or .doc) -- Download Voter Data for Alabama 1986-2006 (.pdf or .doc) Below is a brief discussion on League Consensus Policy taken from LWVAL Board Policies (p.5 & 6) under Core Documents in the Members Section of the LWVAL website at: www.lwval.org/leagdemoc/ Remember to select a Recorder for your Consensus meeting. This person is to take full notes on answers to the consensus questions and also, any significant degree of agreement (unanimity or consensus, strong or weak). For the comment section on the report, the recorder should:
In some circumstances, taping the meeting is useful. Past experience suggests that the recorder should write the report immediately, while memories are fresh. At its next meeting, the Local Board should consider (a) whether or not consensus was achieved and (b) approve the report to be sent to LWVAL. Sometimes consensus on one or more questions is impossible to reach. This may happen because an insufficient number of members are concerned with the issue, or because, even with the best kind of study, discussion and participation, there is too much basic disagreement among members. In any case, a statement of alternative points of view should be included in the report. If no consensus is reached, report that no consensus was reached. Report to LWVAL Board The Report is due to LWVAL Board by February 1st. Use a copy of the Consensus Questions for the report, adding extra space for the comments as needed. Please send reports electronically to me at ssrobin4@bellsouth.net I hope you find this format easy to work with and that your meetings go smoothly. Please let me know what you think of this format, how the presentations go, was the presentation-notes format helpful, and any other comments you may have for future studies and presentations. Sandy LWVAL Off-Site Voting Study, Chair ssrobin4@bellsouth.net 334 501-2204 ******************* Consensus “is the technique most often used in the League for reaching member agreement. It is a process whereby members participate in a group discussion of an issue. The ‘consensus’ reached by members through group discussion is not a simple majority, nor is it unanimity; rather it is the overall ‘sense of the group’ as expressed through the exchange of ideas and opinions…” Reporting Consensus - A consensus report prepared by a local board for the State Board should include the following:
In order for a local consensus report to be considered, it must be received by the deadline set by the State Board. ******************* |
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