Manipulation of procedures, lack of transparency (when the rules require it), dragged out debates to confuse or tire members and blatant violation of rules.
After chair vote, I got 4 different reasons why they switched from paper to digital ballots minutes before vote from DNC
Reminder: Ellison came up a couple votes short of Perez on 1st ballot, triggering 2nd ballot. In btwn both campaigns were to receive list of votes from 1st ballot (to lobby members in btwn ballots). Ellison camp never got it. Later reports showed Obama called members btwn votes.
There were more tactical games played that adversely affected Ellison.
Members of Ellisons team had been hired to lobby. It's normal. But they had no lists to use.
DNC comms leadership said "it would've taken too long and required more staff to count the names between ballots"
Some DNC members expressed at time in response that the DNC should've moved the hours of rallying speeches (some admittedly painfully boring) to the time when staff was to tally votes.
Summary: DNC leadership seems to rely on dragging things out so people lose interest. If you want the DNC tally vote on the #climate debate, don't give up.
Part of the reason they may not want to release vote is because many of those who voted against the climate debate were appointed (not elected) by the Chairman. And several are consultants and lobbyists for, you guessed it, big energy.
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