I can provide additional context as a convention attendee.
After the first round of voting, it was clear that Omar would have a majority. He earned 43% of the vote and other non-Frey voters were expected to vote Omar after seeing the results and knowing that 60% was needed for an endorsement.
At this point, Frey’s campaign started shenanigans that drew boos from the crowd. They called many times for rule changes and stall for time to prevent a second vote. Late into the night, Frey’s campaign went so far as to ask their delegates to go home to prevent a quorum.
Every deviation from convention rules was voted on and approved using procedure. Was it a shitshow? Yes. But in my view, it was done within the rules.
According to what I read last week, they confirmed 176 of first-round votes weren’t counted at the convention (thus, not reflected in the numbers from your photo). I didn’t find a source explaining what the distribution of missing or adjusted final votes was, just that it would’ve pushed Davis onto at least the second round of voting, which would have made it more difficult for Fateh to secure the endorsement (for reasons I can speculate about but don’t know).
I also subsequently found these twoarticles (first is short, second is extremely verbose) that provide additional color to the dysfunction.
Every deviation from convention rules was voted on and approved using procedure.
From the articles above, it sounds like some of those votes / rule changes violated the MN DFL constitution.
I can provide additional context as a convention attendee.
After the first round of voting, it was clear that Omar would have a majority. He earned 43% of the vote and other non-Frey voters were expected to vote Omar after seeing the results and knowing that 60% was needed for an endorsement.
At this point, Frey’s campaign started shenanigans that drew boos from the crowd. They called many times for rule changes and stall for time to prevent a second vote. Late into the night, Frey’s campaign went so far as to ask their delegates to go home to prevent a quorum.
Every deviation from convention rules was voted on and approved using procedure. Was it a shitshow? Yes. But in my view, it was done within the rules.
Thank you!
According to what I read last week, they confirmed 176 of first-round votes weren’t counted at the convention (thus, not reflected in the numbers from your photo). I didn’t find a source explaining what the distribution of missing or adjusted final votes was, just that it would’ve pushed Davis onto at least the second round of voting, which would have made it more difficult for Fateh to secure the endorsement (for reasons I can speculate about but don’t know).
I also subsequently found these two articles (first is short, second is extremely verbose) that provide additional color to the dysfunction.
From the articles above, it sounds like some of those votes / rule changes violated the MN DFL constitution.