[Lnc-business] Letter from member on AZ ballot issues

Starchild sfdreamer at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 6 22:41:46 EDT 2016


Hi Barry,

	Thank you for letting the Libertarian National Committee know about this latest anti-democratic outrage from one of the cartel parties seeking to deny voters the ability to choose Libertarian candidates by imposing unequal, unfair, and burdensome requirements for our candidates to get on the ballot.

	According to the Ballot Access News link you include in your message, the Arizona Supreme Court has shamefully upheld this candidate suppression. Darryl Perry expresses surprise in the comments at BAN that Clint Bolick (recently of the libertarian Institute for Justice and now appointed as a member of that court, iirc) did not issue a dissenting opinion, and I wonder about that too. But I'm not quite clear from either your message or from BAN what's at stake in the District Court case that you mention, or what relation it has to the Arizona Supreme Court case. Can you provide more information on this, the status/timetable of the case, and what kind of support you are seeking?

Love & Liberty,
                                  ((( starchild )))
At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
                                (415) 625-FREE


On Sep 6, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:

> I present this letter sent to me with concerns about the difficulties in AZ
> 
> Dear Folks, 
> 
> I’ve written to some of you before but feel the need to present this one last summary concerning
> the crippling of all Libertarian candidates in Arizona, due to new election laws having now taken effect for the first time.
> 
> THE PROBLEM FOR LIBERTARIANS IN ARIZONA: 
> 
> The Republicans successfully crippled the Libertarian Party in Arizona, with the passage of HB 2608 last year.
> 
>  Libertarian write-in candidates now, this year for the first time, now needing 10x’s to 20x’s more votes in the primaries to try to stay on the ballot for the general elections; 
> (and if collecting signatures to become a candidate, the same increase applies).
> 
> This is due to Libertarians now needing to consider all registered Independents as part of their voter base.
> 
> IN THE RECENT ELECTIONS, LAST WEEK, NO LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATES IN ARIZONA GOT PAST THIS NEW PRIMARY HURDLE, now needing 10x’s to 20x’s more votes. (Because Independents now counted as part of their voter base)
> 
> Less than a week before our Primary on August 30th the Arizona Supreme Court upheld this new law, in a case similar to the court case filed by the Arizona Libertarian Party
> See, information at: ballot-access.org/2016/08/28/arizona-supreme-court-upholds-2015-law-that-excludes-all-but-one-libertarian-from-2016-primary-ballot/
> 
> People get upset about voter suppression. This is even worse, this is suppression of what candidates can get on the ballot.
> 
> I don’t see how any Libertarian candidate can get elected if this court case, Arizona Libertarian Party et al v. Reagan
> Federal Civil Lawsuit Arizona District Court, Case No. 2:16-cv-01019 is not successful, or appealed even to the Supreme Court if necessary. 
> 
> I hope you could offer real support to this. After our recent Primary Election, there were no Libertarian candidates left.
> 
> If this new election law requirement stands, it’s a death knell, not just for our State party, but for all 3rd parties when it is copied and done in other states as well.
> 
> So I make this last effort to raise the alarm: Defeat this new election law requirements now, before it spreads.
> 
> More information is available from our Party Chairman.
> 
> Something needs to be done.
> 
> Our Party Chairman is: 
> Michael Kielsky
> Attorney At Law
> 
> 480.461.5309 Direct  |  480.461.5300 Main  |  480.833.9392 Fax
> 1138 North Alma School Road, Suite 101 |  Mesa, Arizona 85201
> mk at udallshumway.com  |  www.udallshumway.com
> 
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Barry F. Keaveney (citizenbfk)
> 150 N. 5th St., #21
> Show Low, AZ 85901
> (928) 207-3026
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/citizenbfk
> https://citizenbfkblog.wordpress.com
> 
> Note: I, personally, just lost my primary bid last week. But in previous years I would have had enough votes. 
> The new election law, requiring 10x’s to 20x’s more votes in the Primary  crushed my primary bid, crushed the primary bid of all our candidates last week.
> 
> -- 
> In Liberty,
> Caryn Ann Harlos
> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann. Harlos at LP.org
> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Lnc-business mailing list
> Lnc-business at hq.lp.org
> http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://hq.lp.org/pipermail/lnc-business/attachments/20160906/7b43277c/attachment.html>


More information about the Lnc-business mailing list