Carlota thinks that she miscalculated. She thought that the biggest risk of the convention was that the random rabble would try to vote themselves permanently exempt from taxes, which did absolutely happen. She did not anticipate that actually the biggest problem would be Iomedaens playing some kind of extremely complicated game. If she'd anticipated this she would have engineered the committees quite differently. 

Ah well.

"I call this meeting of the committee on safe roads and safe villages to order."