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in the Mayoral race severe enough to nullify the outcome, and appeals were filed in the Mayoral endorsements. Were there PUBLIC reporting and appeals of similar issues or irregularities with the Park Board endorsements, and if so why weren't appeals made on the Park Board endorsements? That does not mean there were not irregularities with the Park Board endorsements though, and if there were, then those endorsements should have also been rescinded also. The question with the Park Board endorsements, did anyone appeal the Park Board endorsements like they did the Mayoral endorsements, and if there were irregularities, why didn't they?

Here are the problems with the mayoral process:

The Excel spreadsheet used for voting tabulation was "substantially flawed"

There were missing votes on the first ballot which led to an undercount of 176 votes.

There was improper candidate elimination because of the miscounted votes, and candidate Davis was WRONGLY eliminated after the first ballot, even though he received enough support to continue.

The committee found that the credentials sheet was left unsecured and accessed by non-committee members, and the entire credentials book for Ward 5 was lost.

As a result of the miscounted votes, mayoral candidate DeWayne Davis was wrongly eliminated after the first ballot despite receiving enough support to advance.

All those issues were documented by evidence, and there was no documented appeals or procedural problems for the park board races, therefore no basis for a similar reversal.

As a result the DFL removed the mayoral endorsement, barred the Minneapolis DFL from endorsing a candidate, and place the city party on 2 years probation.

The question is, was the system flawed or not? If it was flawed, what should be done?

If people don't like it, then then they should show it to the DFL committee that the problems listed in the report are false or fabricated.

In the end, what are they going to do? The election is in November, the whole city will decide from the list of candidates who they want to be their mayor on November 4, 2025.

The following document the issues, which starts in the section: "Types of complaints about the July 19 convention"

https://minneapolistimes.com/minneapolis-dfl-convention-a-summary-of-challenges-and-complaints/

In my view the caucus is a flawed process. It discriminates against people who have mobility issues and can't attend, among other things. It limits voter participation, and empowers a small number of committed party activists, in contrast to a primary.

Caucuses can be manipulated and caucus-goers bullied into voting for a certain candidate.

That is why In 2020 and 2024 many of the caucuses of 2016 returned to traditional primaries.

However, that is how Minneapolis wants to run it.