LAST EDITED ON Apr-18-14 AT 01:48PM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Apr-18-14 AT 01:45?PM (MST)
abqbw,
Digging a little deeper, I was able to find this, which again, if true, is an even bigger mystery as to WHY 502 applicants that applied in 121 were taken out of the draw. In particular when 121 should have been (if we believe what I found on the MT draw), that they start with the lowest numbered units first.
However, it now makes sense and could explain, IF Mr. Whitney was telling you the truth, about why no NR's drew 121. That unit should have been the first one drawn, and the ONLY way a NR didnt get issued a tag is either if the applications were purged from the system, or the first 4 tags drawn were all residents.
Drawing Process: FWP's special drawings are computerized
and completely random. A computer assigns each application a
randomly selected number. In other words, the computer
randomly draws assigned numbers, not applicant names.
Drawings are conducted species by species, hunting district by hunting district. For example, when conducting the drawing for permits, the computer starts with the first elk hunting
district: 100-00. If the quota is 10, the computer starts selecting applicants who applied for this district as their first choice. If there are at least 1 first choice applicants, the drawing does not consider second choice applicants. When that district quota has been filled, the computer goes to the next hunting district and completes the same process until all district quotas are filled with first choice applicants. If there are not enough first choice applicants to fill a quota, the computer starts selecting second choice applicants, and so forth.
This still raises a red flag as to HOW exactly, and WHO gets to make the call on withdrawing units (if thats what really happened) and entire pools of applicants that applied in good faith with an expectation of, at the very least, being considered and active in the draw.
Further, if they draw as described above, starting with the lOWEST numbered districts first, it sure seems to me that there will be a huge bias in the draw, favoring those NR's that apply for the lowest numbered district.
This whole thing is an absolute goat-rope...figured I'd take the weekend and keep digging up research before I open a can of whoop-ass Monday on the MTFWP.