Party Initiatives Agreed To Between The PPC Steering Committee And The State Party Chair In Consideration Of Our  Recommendation For Endorsement By Our Membership At Large on 5/30/06

The following Party initiatives/reforms were agreed to by the existing TDP Chair in consideration of a recommendation from our Steering Committee to our membership at large to endorse Boyd Ritchie for Party Chair for the June ’06 through June ’08 term, at our Caucus at the State Convention on June 9, 2006.

1. Aggressive public endorsement and media initiative by the TDP supporting the Party’s position requiring a voter verifiable paper ballot trail in conjunction with any electronic voting system used by election authorities in Texas.
2. TDP Chair obtain read and write access to the Secretary of State’s Texas Election Administration Management System (TEAM) and appoint an SDEC member to actively participate in its activities.
3. Advocate debate within the Convention Rules Committee on two PPC resolutions addressing these two issues above which include:

• PPC Resolution: Public Support for VVPAT

• PPC Resolution: Personal Privacy Protection (TEAM)

4. Strong and forceful admonishment to SDEC members from the SD’s situated in the Houston, DFW and Bexar County areas that a core duty of their tenure of service is leadership with the SD Chair and related County Chairs in  Party Building and Voter Mobilization Organizing in their Senate Districts; provision of training by proven SDEC organizers for those directed to receive such training by the Chair.  This is inclusive of specific accountability reports to the TDP Chair, in writing, submitted at each SDEC meeting on Party Building work accomplished between SDEC meetings.
5. Appointment by the TDP Chair of  PPC member Tom Blackwell, SD 16  to the Convention Platform Committee.
6. Creating and implementation of a training program and collaboration with the County Chairs Association to teach County Chairs and SDEC members  the rudiments of counter-voter suppression activity engaged in by County election officials across the State, irrespective of party affiliation,  fostered by the Republican Secretary of State and both the national and local Republican parties.