Vicky Garland TNNAC
Joe McCaleb
David Teat Advisory Council
Lynn Clayton TNNAC
Doug Kirby TNNAC
Chrissie Vogel
Donna Bivens TNNAC
Brent Cox TNNAC
Tina Mote TNNAC
Jesse Garland
Tom Kunesh TNNAC

Caucus Problems
lack of experienced participants

Get everything done (all papers) done 9 months in advance

written job requirements of each electable office
not popularity contest - it's a job
a TNNAC SOP manual
caucus process outline
chairperson responsibilities
complaint process, form
attendance sheet
sign-off sheet for training
1-page instruction sheet for voters
done/ready by October 2004

recommendation: training/run-through/Meet&Greet 1 month prior to the caucus
nominations close: Saturday, 28 may (website says 23 may)
TNNAC training - 28 may?
Local training - 11 June?

caucuses: Saturday, 25 June (website says 23 June)

nominations for TNNAC board members/caucus chairs
online form

mail out hardcopies of all forms to all critics of TNNAC's internet
use TNNAC hardcopy list
all Indian organizations in the state

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who can vote
Middle TN people voting on Nashville commissioners
4 Commissioners up for election
4 caucuses?
option A: only metro citizens vote in metro caucuses, and metro caucuses only vote on metro commissioners
option B: only metro citizens vote in metro caucuses, and metro & division caucuses elect convention delegates on metro commissioners

David - tit for tat stuff has to stop
if we're looking for who's at fault we're not looking at the solution

recommends doing a poll

proxy voting? Verification?
Absentee voting?

Who can be commissioner? - By area? Metro-area commissioners have to be from metro-area?
Law says "metro-area and contiguous counties"

person who has two residences - votes where?

Poll - public poll
distribute at pow-wows

can't prevent all abuse, can only try to minimize abuse

seek advice from state election commission
don't have to follow it, just need to ask for it.

nominations
caucus
convention

David Teat: separating election of commissioners from Advisory Council members

There's a rumor that a petition is going around in Chattanooga to replace John Anderson. [no such petition encountered.]

no legislative authority to appoint interim appointments

a different way to describe the elections:
nominate 4 people to the Advisory Council

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metro-area nominees from metro-area alone
nominators must be from metro-area alone

division nominees from division-non-metro area
nominators

two alternatives:
1. status quo:
all inclusive - metro and division areas nominate for division
metro & areas nominate for metro, stipulation that metro commissioner has to reside in metro area

2. change
all inclusive - metro and division areas nominate for division
metro & division nominate for metro, stipulation that metro commissioner has to reside in metro area -and- division commissioner has to reside outside of the metro area (but within division)

3. Alternative
exclusive - metro nominates for metro, non-metro nominates for division

- all caucuses in the division vote on each others nominees
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4. metro-areas elect metro commissioner, division areas (exclusive of metro areas) elect division commissioner, with no convention election (poll question but general displeasure with the idea)

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separate elections for Commissioner nominees and for Advisory Council
two ballots
can cross-register

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residency: 1 year as of date of caucus

background info: address on your driver's license or your residential address
mailing address:

proof of residence (eg, driver's license, utility bill in your name,

remove marital status, spouse's name, children's names

false or misleading information -= may =- disqualify you
failure to complete this form may be grounds for disqualification

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caucus officers/TNNAC Board members
1-year residency

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It was decided that TNNAC needed a hardcopy list for mail outs. And that
TNNAC should compile a list of all Indian organizations in the State of
Tennessee to send out information about TNNAC. It was general consensus that
TNNAC served the entire Native American community and should be in contact
with all who are interested in participating in the process. Should area
caucuses contact organizations within their caucuses or should TNNAC (in
General) contact them? Mention of different organizations to contact: AIA,
NAIA, Bell-Henning Community, Overhill Nation of Cherokee Indians in East
Tennessee and others.

All commissioners represent -all- Indians in the state

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poll question: - who should receive it?
- based on what criteria?

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referendums

written out if final format, submitted to TNNAC by the close of
nominations, with 9 persons' signatures (registered voters_) from each of
the 7 caucus areas (total 63 valid signatures of registered voters)
may be submitted anytime after one convention and prior to the close of
nominations for the next convention

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process of challenging a candidate's information?

Complaint procedure

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poll
responses - signed, mailed in, hardcopy

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adjourned