[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-06: AZ Ballot Access Ruling

Whitney Bilyeu whitneycb76 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 21:13:41 EDT 2016


I abstain.

Whitney Bilyeu
Region 7 Rep

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes
>
> Joshua A. Katz
> Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We have an electronic mail ballot.
>>
>>
>> *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by September 21, 2016 at
>> 11:59:59pm Pacific time.*
>> *Sponsor:*  Katz, Harlos, Hayes, Demarest
>>
>> *Motion:*
>>
>> Whereas, The Arizona state government's new statute increasing the
>> signature requirements for Libertarians and other alternative party
>> candidates to appear on primary ballots in Arizona by as much as 20-fold or
>> more is clearly unfair, burdensome, at odds with legal precedent, and
>> unconstitutional; and
>>
>> Whereas, Plaintiffs have limited resources and could use additional legal
>> support in fighting to overturn this unjust statute, especially if the
>> federal district court ruling goes against them and an appeal is necessary;
>>
>> Resolved, That the Libertarian National Committee allocates $5,000 from
>> its "legal offense" budget line to be used in the event of an appeal from
>> the District Court's ruling in AZ Libertarian Party v. Reagan, and directs
>> its staff and chair to reach out to groups such as the American Civil
>> Liberties Union, the Landmark Legal Foundation, the Pacific Legal
>> Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Center for Law
>> and Justice, and other alternative political parties, to invite them to
>> file amicus curiae briefs with the court or otherwise provide support to
>> the plaintiffs in the aforementioned case, and to publicize the matter on a
>> national scope if feasible.
>>
>>
>> -Alicia
>>
>>
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