The GPVA delegate apportionment formula won the IRV election. You can see the results here. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean that we have a delegate apportionment formula yet. The national committee must now vote again, this time exclusively on whether to adopt the GPVA formula, and must achieve a 2/3 majority vote.
At this point I can live with the GPVA formula and hope that it passes. I agree with Cam Gordon that all of the formulas seem excessively complex. They also all give California a tremendous amount of voting power (the proposal that passed gives them 20% of the vote at the convention). That said, it's time to accept a compromise on this issue. It's been far too debilitating to this party for the past four years (ever since the Nader/Cobb controversy in 2004). Pass the GPVA plan and let's get back to rebuilding the party.
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I can see why they wanted to cap California at 20%. The next biggest states, Illinois, Maine, and New York, are all at about 5% each.
Even if CA Greens are that much bigger, it seems reasonable to want to give the rest of the country a little help.
I still think they should use more concrete criteria like the sum of Green votes cast in each state.
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