[Lnc-business] Oklahoma petition drive

[Scott L.]

Oklahoma:

 

"To continue to be officially recognized by the state, a political party's
candidate for governor or president in a general election must receive at
least 10 percent of the vote. If the candidate fails to receive 10 percent
of the vote, the party will cease to be recognized by the state."

 

Since Governor is not up in 2016 in OK, the chance of retaining ballot
access in Oklahoma after the 2016 Presidential election is essentially zero.

 

That just puts Oklahoma in the same category as NY.


  Scott Lieberman

 

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of
Nicholas Sarwark
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 10:40 AM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Oklahoma petition drive

 

FYI, a donor has already pledged $30,000 specifically for Oklahoma,

which we intend to use to solicit matching funds from other donors to

get to the target amount.  That pledge is contingent on us doing the

Oklahoma drive.

 

Our consideration of doing the Oklahoma drive is only after the

Oklahoma LP has committed to collect a certain number of signatures as

well as recruiting as many candidates as possible to use the ballot

access if we are successful.  The Oklahoma LP has already started a

drive and will be jointly petitioning with the Greens for the

volunteer efforts, though no LNC funds would be used to circulate

Green petitions.

 

It's been 15 years since this party has had 50 state ballot access.

15 years is long enough.

 

-Nick

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