The Mises Caucus objections to the process on October 1st are meritless. They are inventing requirements that don't exist to deflect and obfuscate from the fact that they lost.
Nevertheless, between October 15th and November 20th, every single one of their procedural complaints were addressed in full.
On October 15th, the State Board, which includes a majority of the Board elected at the June Convention and acknowledged by the MCDE, adopted a motion to hold the 2021 Q4 State Board meeting on November 20th. The Articles of Association and now the Bylaws require the State Board to meet quarterly, but they do not establish the precise time and place for those meetings to occur. They have always been scheduled by a motion, including when the MCDE held four seats on the State Board, without objection to the procedural basis for scheduling them that way. The vote took place on the public LPD Discord Server, where most of them still lurked. An email was sent out to the State Board email list, which all of them were still on. This was over a month before the scheduled meeting. There is no way to claim this meeting was not properly noticed. Unlike the ad hoc motion, this synchronous in person meeting would require advanced notice, but it was indisputably provided.
The meeting was further noticed on October 21st with a post in the LPD Facebook Group. Included in that post was another Bylaws amendment notification to the same section that had been previously amended to enable their removal. This notification met every contrived requirement for what a notification might look like. It was formatted to very clearly appear as a notification. The comments were left on. The post was not buried and was in fact bumped the week of the meeting. It too provided the date and time of the 2021 Q4 meeting. There is no argument that this was not a proper notification for a Bylaws amendment, meeting every criteria that their own notifications had followed.
The meeting occurred on November 20th. First thing was the election of a Chair Pro Tem. Instead of relying on the fact that the Chair and his successors had been removed or that they were absent, the new Chair was explicitly elected, again by a majority of the elected Board, to serve in that capacity. After several deliberately pedantic points of order that were put to the body, again by a majority vote of the Board elected in June, the Bylaws amendment was adopted and every action taken since the first removal ratified.
Even if one were to assume or determine that the initial process followed from August 31st through October 1st with the initial notification and its eventual adoption, this follow up process addressed every shortcoming claimed by the MCDE to invalidate those actions.
