The governing documents of the Libertarian Party of Delaware, in a carryover going back before 2010, used to be divided into two sections. The first section was the "Articles of Association" with the second section being the "Bylaws". The Articles of Association required a 2/3rds vote to amend, either by the convention or by the State Board. The Bylaws only required a simple majority. As of the June Convention, either could be amended by the required margin of State Board members present and voting, meaning abstentions or absent Board members would not count against a motion to amend either of these documents passing.
Amendments in all cases required "notification" at least 30 days in advance of any vote, and what constituted "proper notice" was defined elsewhere in the Articles of Association to include a post on the website, a post on the Facebook Page, or a post in the Facebook Group. Any one of these was considered to be "proper notice". It was a deliberate choice to allow posts to the Facebook Group to be sufficient so that the State Board or whatever individuals controlled the website or Facebook Page could not gatekeep the notification process so amendments could be brought to the floor of the conventions by any member.
No other requirements for "proper notice" were specified.
One such notice was posted by a Mises Caucus member to change the amendment process for the Articles of Association such that they would require 2/3rds of the entire State Board to support a motion to amend them. This wise change would prevent four Board members from sneaking in an amendment if four members of the Board were absent or abstaining on a motion. This amendment left out the amendment process for the Bylaws, which could also be amended by only four Board members if up to four others were absent.
The Bylaws contained a section about Disciplinary Action outlining the steps necessary to remove a member of the State Board. The original requirement was 4/5ths of the State Board, to be confirmed by a majority vote at the next Convention. However, these provisions appeared in the Bylaws, so while the threshold for removal was 4/5ths, the threshold for amending that provision was 50%+1.
Four out of the ten Board positions were Mises. Five out of ten positions were resisting them and looking for a means of removing them. With as little as one and up to four of the non-resisting Board members missing, quorum would still exist and we would hold the majority necessary to amend the Bylaws and make the removal process much easier. This felt like an achievable goal, and all five of the resisting Board members committed to carrying out "The Plot", as we came to call it, along with several other party members who had seen the behavior of the Mises Caucus in the Party and on the Board. One of those members, who is not on the Board, posted the required notice in the Facebook Group.
At the moment the notice was posted, several Plotters engaged in a "meme dump" posting articles and memes into the Facebook Group immediately after the notice. Within a few minutes, the comments on the notice were turned off. These actions in concert served to bury both the group notification and the post so that it would not be easily seen by those not looking for it. Shady? Yes. "Proper Notice" as defined by the Articles of Association? Also yes.
Now, we wait. The notice requirement is 30 days. It was a rough month with continued social media nonsense and efforts by the Mises Caucus Board members to circumvent the existing policies and get control of the social media assets, donor information, and the bank accounts. The drama was hard on the neutral Secretary. Our focus was concocting methods for calling a meeting but trying to ensure that at least one of our opponents would not be in attendance. We had some pretty wild ideas, but the one we settled on was to show up at the New Castle County Chair's place of business, an open air farm stand, and make him our quorum. He was by far the most obnoxious of the Mises Board members, so there was a poetic justice in making him an accomplice in his own demise.
These were, admittedly, pretty bad ideas. Though we had technically been calling our in person meetings to order by making motions, seconding them, and completing the quorum calls as required in our Articles of Association for convening meetings outside the required quarterly meetings, that process was intended for meetings that took place on Discord chats and we had been fudging them to convene ad hoc meetings in between. We were going to do the same in this instance. It was a stretch.
Then, the Secretary resigned. The drama had become too much for him and he no longer felt up to dealing with it. He is a good man, the best, even though he would have opposed The Plot based on his cordial relations with both sides. Due to his resignation though, we now had a clean majority with five out of the remaining nine Board members. The cuteness around calling a meeting and hoping someone was absent was no longer needed. We could run a standard motion as we often have on our Discord chat and the four Mises Board members would not be able to stop it.
