[Lnc-business] Dollars per vote - which elections should we recruit for?

[Scott L.]

Also in the June 2015 issue of LP News:

 

 

The candidate survey that Carla Howell sent out showed that 2014 candidates
raised about $6807 for their campaigns.


I am going to be generous and assume that the candidates for local office on
average raised that amount, when the actual figure is probably lower than
that.

 

A seat of the pants, rough estimate is that votes in local elections, if you
win,  cost $7 each.  Obviously that number varies all over the place, and I
welcome someone to find a recent article that refutes that assumption.

 

 

Using that figure, that means that the average Libertarian running for local
office raised about enough money to get 1000 votes.

 

My question is - how many of those local candidates needed 1000 votes or
fewer to win?   My guess is that most of our candidates for local office
needed greater than 1000 votes to win.

 

 

So why am I even mentioning this?   If we are to follow our Bylaws and
motivate and help our affiliates to recruit candidates who win elections,
then we need to encourage as many of our members as possible to run for the
smallest possible offices that are up for election in their area.  

 

At this point in the LP's development, most of our candidates just don't
have the fundraising moxie needed to raise enough money to win an election
that requires more than 1000 votes to win.


   Scott Lieberman

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