James Ogle 4+0+1+0=5 (31%)
Kimberly Johnson 7+3+1+0=11 (69%)
NOTA 0+3+0+1=4 (25%)

Kimberly Johnson having received a majority of ballots cast is the BTP Vice Presidential nominee.

To all my friends who voted for my candidacy, Princess Joy, Phred, William, others whose names I don't know for sure, all the other candidates, and participants I'd like to say thanks for giving me the free speech time and the votes, and I look forward to working with the Boston Tea Party, all parties, independents, voters and non voters in 2012.

The election is still not over and so I will briefly state my case for why you should consider voting for my candidacy as vice president of the BTP.

The simple reason is that I am promoting the Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system, where all parties and independents have the liberty to participate and be self-categorized with the party/category they proclaim at the moment.
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2012

When electing the demonstration model of this parliament seat distribution system with 1000 seats in 2012, any name that garners 1/1001ths (or .999%) plus one vote is elected in consecutive order based on the rankings of the ranked votes on ballots and "eballots" printed out, also known as tics.

Under this system, the 8th USA Parliament has been organizing and growing for 16 years, and by using the Sainte-Lague system and free speech we've manged to grow pretty large in my opinion. Eager to improve, we've made many innovative improvements to our process, including what appears to be innovations in democracy; ranked choice consensus voting, eballots and the parliamentary go-ahead.

That said, I'd like to offer a little constructive criticism to the BoD of the Boston Tea Party, based on the very positive experience of the USA Parliament, so that they can consider making improvements to their own elections in the future.

Here are some basic descriptions of a few rules that have helped us evolve very fast at the USA Parliament, which have been thought out pretty well. If you'd like to have further discussions, I will be happy to follow up:

--Use real candidates only, do not promote NOTA as a choice, except when the person representing NOTA (there are varying uses) stands to represent the word.
--Allow ALL names nominated (and seconded) to access the ballot (no roadblocks, many names were excluded).
--Do away with seconding (another road block, especially when BTP is a tiny group).
--Do away with "click the dot" (a plurality election system...not good at all)
--Allow up to three write-in names. (bring down more road blocks)
--Do away with deleting comments from people in the discussion areas (road blocks)
--Use only ranked choice voting in multi-winner districts.
--Never use single winner district elections, either plurality or IRV. IRV (instant runoff voting) is for single winner districts only and attracts egotistical single winner district power grabbers and control freaks.

Use only the most advanced voting system, the Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system, which is for multi-winner districts two or more (the more the better).

These are among a few of the election reforms that the USA Parliament has adopted in our 36 rules over the past 16 years.

I really do look forward to working with all people in 2012, when the USA Parliament will be nominating and electing 1000 members of parliament (MPs), and you're all welcomed and invited. We only have about 175 to 200 names who automatically qualify for our ballot when nominations start on 2/1/2012, so I hope you'll get in touch and sign up now so you can stay abreast of the schedule announcement on 1/1/2012.

Lastly, congratulations to Honorable Tiffany Briscoe [Boston Tea]. I'd like to personally invite her to the USA Parliament's "presidential debate committee", should she find the time and wish to participate.

I'm including a link below. Someone (her?) needs to vote for her name Tiffany Briscoe onto the USA Parliament's presidential debate committee, in order to be elected. The "eballot" is posted on the web page below, the voter must copy the ballot, follow the directions and mark the eballot correctly, and email it to the volunteer voter counters' email address. (Anyone may also sign up as a volunteer vote counter to observe the eballots as they come in, too).

Thanks again everyone, and I look forward to speaking or communicating with you anytime, I keep my cell phone on me at all times, and I'm easily reached at 415-686-1996, joogle@gonott.com or the contact link to the parliaments web page.

Very Truly Yours,
--James James Ogle
Candidate for Vice President of the Boston Tea (and still fighting!)

PS Here's the link to the elected "PDC" (presidential debate committee). Hope you like this concept!

http://usparliament.org/pdc.php