The Green Party officially nominated Dr. Jill Stein and Professor Butch Ware at its Presidential Nominating Convention over the weekend. Delegates representing 34 states, Washington, D.C., and four internal party caucuses participated in the convention, which was held remotely
Delegates nominated a presidential ticket on Saturday, during the third day of the party’s Presidential Nominating Convention. Jill Stein, who previously ran as the party’s 2012 and 2016 presidential nominee, secured over 90% of delegate votes, confirming her nomination for a third time. Delegates then voted to nominate Butch Ware, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whom Stein formally introduced as her running mate the previous evening, as the party’s vice-presidential nominee.
A preliminary credentials report adopted earlier in the afternoon indicated there was a total of 299 delegate votes available. The actual number of participants was likely higher than the number of votes; however, as the Green Party adjusts the weight of certain delegation votes to better account for their impact on convention results. State delegations from 34 states, Washington, D.C., and four internal party caucuses—the National Black, Latinx, Lavender Greens, and Women’s Caucuses—were approved to participate in the nominating portion.
| Candidate Name | Vote Total | Vote Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Jill Stein | 267 votes | 91.12% |
| Jasmine Sherman | 13 votes | 4.43% |
| NOTA | 3 votes | 1.02% |
| Daví | 2 votes | .68% |
| Ajamu Baraka | ½ vote | .17% |
| Randy Toler | ½ votes | .17% |
| Uncommitted | 7 votes | 2.38% |
Stein won the party’s presidential nomination, which was conducted using ranked-choice voting, in the first round with 267 delegate votes. Jasmine Sherman followed with 13 delegate votes, Daví with one vote, Ajamu Baraka with half a vote, and Randy Toler also with half a vote. Seven delegate votes were uncommitted, and three votes went to the None of the Above option.
Delegates then voted to confirm Butch Ware as Stein’s vice presidential nominee, with his nomination announced by party election assistants after 54% of tallied delegate votes reflected unanimous support for his selection. A final vote total was not announced and is not yet known at this time.
Stein and Ware later appeared together following the vote in a joint press conference to address Green Party members. A recording of the conference provided by the Green Party is available below:
You seem to have become obsessed with me of late, dungfly. Attacking me on BAN in my absence for fear of getting told off yet again for breaking IPR’s civility policy in your endless baseless attacks against me.
Clearly the pompous fool calling themselves “SocraticGadfly” while demonstrating nothing but ignorance of and contempt for Socratic teaching, is the “pontificating, bloviating fucking idiot” to use its own words – congratulations on finally investing in a thesaurus, or are you merely repeating words people have use to describe yourself, mistaking them for compliments?
Just because something has a historical precedent – something which I, being far more knowledgeable about the American political history than you could ever hope to be, dungfly, clearly never denied anywhere outside of your disturbingly obsessive fantasies about me – does not make it “normal”.
Fractional votes do not make any sense. If you are so pathetically indecisive, then give every delegate multiple votes to divvy up. But fracturing a single, atomic vote is suitably embarrassing for the Green Party to embrace. It’s quite on brand, in fact.
So, I ask again: which of the two clowns did the top half delegate vote for, and which the bottom half? From its touchiness, I can only conclude dungfly’s horse got the bottom half vote. U+1F60F
Fact right here, Nuña, and I’ll try to get this over to BAN as well.
1860 Republican National Convention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_Republican_National_Convention
Someone with more knowledge is welcome to correct me, but my understanding of the role of half-votes in the Green Party nominating process is that they are associated with states where the party is less established or where there are multiple organizations claiming to be the Green Party affiliate. I presume it’s a way to ensure that these affiliates still have a voice in the process without disproportionately affecting the influence of those more established state parties.
I think the 1/2 votes came from Florida, I am surprised that Ajamu Baraka named got a 1/2 vote because he was not on the restrictive and rigged ballot in any state. I was voting for Peter Camejo as a protest vote against the millionaire Stein before the Florida primary when I was assure a write in place on the ballot was possible but it ended up not happening. I will never vote for a cosplaying “leftist” tankie like Stein. She and the “Fusion” types have destroyed the Greens. Medea Benjamin destroys everything she gets involved in, that isn’t her own. I voted NOTA, Toler and Sherman and left the others unranked. In the general I will write in Camejp or Chavez again, which will cancel; my vote. Neither are legal write ins.
I have further updated my post from Saturday about the process of Stein selecting Ware and the backstory: https://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2024/08/so-its-butch-ware-as-jill-steins-veep.html
Nuña, despite his pontificating, is incredibly clueless about the American political process. Half-votes have been parts of major and minor party political conventions for more than a century. (I can’t be any politer.)
How does half a delegate cast a vote? And which of the two clowns did the top half vote for, and which the bottom half?