[Lnc-business] SD petition drive

[Scott L.]

I would love to see the Libertarian Party of South Dakota increase its own
membership count, and increase the number of National LP members in SD.

 

However, every minute that a petitioner spends trying to get that "$5
bounty" for new LP members is a minute that the petitioner is not getting
petition signatures.  Even with the "flat rate" arrangement below, that
still ties up that petitioner in SD for an extra minute or 2 minutes or 10
minutes, as opposed to him or her finishing in SD a day or two earlier so
that they can move on to  another state.

 

Please don't give petitioners an incentive to NOT spend 100% of their time
collecting ballot-access signatures during their tour of duty in a given
state.

 

 

   Scott Lieberman

 

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of
Roland Riemers
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 7:11 PM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Cc: Roland Riemers
Subject: [Lnc-business] Re. SD petition drive

 

Bill,

 

I have been checking with Charles Tuttle the Petitioner, and they (3) are
interested in doing the SD petition drive.  Checked on requirements, and it
is 6,936 signatures.  My understanding, unlike ND, is they have to be
registered voters, but the petitioners can register them as well as get
their signatures.    Deadline is 5 March 2016, but naturally they do not
want to collect in the dead of winter, so our realistic deadline should be
by the end of November to avoid cold weather as well as give the SD party
time to get candidates on line.

 

Charles likes 10% over,  so I think a realistic goal would be 7,500
signatures. 

 

They are willing to do it for $15,000 and they would pay their own expenses
such as hotels, etc.and they would be very happy with that.

 

To make this effort worthwhile,  I would suggest we also offer a $5 bounty
if they give out membership applications and they later enroll in the party.
I would be willing to sponsor $2 of that $5.  I think anyone who enrolls in
the party during the time of petitioning, and up to one month afterwards,
should be credited to the efforts of the petitioners.  Actually, if Wes was
willing to go along with it,  I think it would benefit the party if we even
gave a $10 per new member bounty, because the party would still come out way
ahead.   We would need to get them a good supply of membership applications
to hand out.

 

It is my understanding that there currently are some other petition drives
going on in SD,  so the sooner we get going on this the better and everyone
will be happy.

 

Of course the question still remains is can SD put some actual candidates on
the ballot if we put the party on the ballot?

 

     Roland Riemers

 

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