<div dir="ltr">Hi Kevin,<div><br></div><div>Just caught the last 10 minutes of today's afternoon proceedings.  Most interesting.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the schedule for tomorrow.  It is the only day this week with an evening meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>If you let Jenn know that you want to tweet, she will send you some background on tomorrow evening's speakers.</div><div><br></div><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(178,34,34)"><strong><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">Tuesday, July 26, 2016</span></span> </strong></span></span></span></p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Meeting 1:</strong><br><strong><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (EDT)</span></span></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><u>Expert Witnesses:</u><br>• Michael Marsh, Emeritus Professor, Trinity College Dublin<br>(by videoconference: Dublin, Ireland)</span></span></p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">• Michael Gallagher, Professor of Comparative Politics, Trinity College Dublin<br>(by videoconference: Dublin, Ireland)</span></span></p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"> </p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Meeting 2:<br><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (EDT)</span></span></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><u>Expert Witnesses:</u><br>• Patrice Dutil, Professor, Ryerson University</span></span></p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">• Peter Russell, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto</span></span></p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"> </p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Meeting 3:<br><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. (EDT)</span></span></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><u>Expert Witnesses:</u><br>• Tom Rogers, Electoral Commissioner, Australian Electoral Commission (by videoconference: Canberra, Australia New Zealand Electoral Commission<br>• Robert Peden, Chief Electoral Officer (by videoconference: Wellington, New Zealand)</span></span></p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thank you Kevin!</span></span></p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sharon</span></span></p><p style="font-size:19.2px;margin-left:28pt"><br></p><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Kevin Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevedsmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevedsmith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Hi Sharon:</p>
<p dir="ltr">Are there evening spots for this?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Kevin.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Jul 11, 2016 5:19 PM, "Sharon Sommerville" <<a href="mailto:sharonsommerville@gmail.com" target="_blank">sharonsommerville@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hello FairVoters!<div><br></div><div>We received this request from Anita Nickerson last week.  <span style="font-size:19.2px"> </span><span style="font-size:19.2px">We are in urgent need of people to tweet questions to the Electoral Reform Committee in late July.  We were out numbered by people asking for a referendum last week and really need to do better.</span><div style="font-size:19.2px"><br></div><div style="font-size:19.2px">Details are in the letter below.  If you can help, could you contact Anita and cc me so I don't bother you again!</div><div style="font-size:19.2px"><br></div><div style="font-size:19.2px">With thanks,</div><div style="font-size:19.2px">Sharon</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Anita Nickerson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anita.nickerson@fairvote.ca" target="_blank">anita.nickerson@fairvote.ca</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 6:30 PM<br>Subject: Help on Twitter on committee days<br>To: Sharon Sommerville <<a href="mailto:sharonsommerville@gmail.com" target="_blank">sharonsommerville@gmail.com</a>>, Jennifer Ross <<a href="mailto:jenn@jenniferross.ca" target="_blank">jenn@jenniferross.ca</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">Hi Sharon and Jenn.<div><br></div><div>As you probably know, every time the Electoral Reform Committee meets they are inviting the public to submit questions at <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px">#ERRE #Q.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px">During the last session, the referendum advocates pretty much won the day on Twitter with 16/29 questions (adding to the fact that the Conservatives spend 99% of their speaking and questioning time making the same demands about referendums and asking witnesses the same questions over and over they're building their story about most Canadians want a referendum). </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px"><b>We need help to make sure that lots of PR supporters are tweeting great questions, and retweeting the good questions/comments of others. </b>That helps show strong support for PR and drown out the calls for a referendum. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px">What we'd like to do is ask our team to sign up as many people as we can into slots where they commit to be on twitter following that hashtag at a specific time.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px">We'll let our tweeters know ahead of time what witnesses will be appearing that day, what they might expect to hear, and what some good question topics might be.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></div><div><font face="Arial" color="#cc0000"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><i>Can you help with this by asking those you know are on twitter to contact me about helping us?</i></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Here is the committee meeting schedule for July - basically, July 25-28. They haven't actually specified the times AM and PM but so far they've been 10 AM - 12 PM and 2-4 PM EST.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><b><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bro-UAens5cIR__u_WC1Z32FYhE8SfYTDR6wpy6FZyU/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bro-UAens5cIR__u_WC1Z32FYhE8SfYTDR6wpy6FZyU/edit?usp=sharing</a></span><br></b></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">If you can ask people to volunteer and to tell me the info below that would be a big help. </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">a) What dates/times they are available</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">b) Their twitter handle</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">c) Their email</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Thanks so much for any help!!</span></font></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Anita</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></div></font></span></div>
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