Re: problems with the election

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 > From: Dale Elliott <http://www.mengarelliott.com/~dale>
 > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 16:39:48 -0700
 >
 > Actually, I think I see it. There's a "Membership Active" column. A spot
 > check shows that these members have "FALSE" in that column. Apparently, it
 > doesn't mean what we thought it meant, or it is inaccurate.
 >
 > Do any of you know what that column means? Should we ignore it and send
 > ballots to these 63 members?

It looks like that column was never maintained.  I guess that explains it.

 > Dale

 > From: Dale Elliott <http://www.mengarelliott.com/~dale>
 > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 16:33:44 -0700
 >
 > Here is a list of the email addresses that were used in 2017 but not 2018.
 > I want to investigate to see if some of these were correctly omitted
 > (associate members) or if they were all mistakes. I can't do that today.

I'm pretty sure this list is not relevant.  For example, I did receive a ballot 
and I'm on this list.

 > Robert B: If you can get to the data table we used and look at a few of
 > these names, it would be good to find out if there's anything obviously
 > different about them.
 >
 > ID Email
 > Abel Marquez http://www.gmail.com/~rimrock06
 [snip]
 > Dale

 > From: Susan Martindill <http://www.gmail.com/~susan.martindill>
 > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 13:11:32 -0700
 >
 > My two cents is that if you know for certain who didn't
 > receive a ballot, it would be better to send one only to those
 > members to avoid confusion/multiple emails to the rest.

I agree.

 > If
 > there's any doubt though we should redo it to make sure
 > everyone has a chance to vote.  -susan > ball1

 > From: Bob Gulino <http://www.unumhumbrewing.com/~bob.gulino>
 > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 09:02:54 -0700
 >
 > Hi, Robert,
 >
 > It probably is related to either (a) the email messages going into
 > spam folders or (b) incorrect email addresses.

It is neither of these things.  There is a systematic omission of a set of 
members from the voter roster.

 > For (a), we could send out a note via MailChimp to ask people to
 > check their spam folder. For (b), we could also take a quick look at
 > the list of email addresses to try to identify incorrect addresses.

I think we should've done this prior to using the membership roster from 
Caspio.  We'll have to try to remember to do a proper update before the next 
election.

 > If you send me the list you used for election buddy, I could compare
 > it to our MailChimp list.
 >
 > Cheers,
 > Bob