[Lnc-business] Oklahoma petition drive

[Kevin Ludlow]

The question was, what is required to determine if a signature is valid?
Are we not able to look people up by their voter ID provided and determine
this?  It sounds like we are waiting on the OK government to check this for
us. I realize that in the end they WILL have to validate them. But again,
is there not a way to do this in advance?

And it's frustrating that we can't have serious conversations about money
in this group. My point was very clear.  Often times there is not a benefit
to paying people the minimum of what they will work for. While it might
seem a better figure to start with, often it just means you pay more in the
end. Seeing on how we were off by over 100% I merely asked if we had looked
at that.

I don't expect anyone will raise much of a brow to us having estimated so
poorly because after all, that's how it's always been done. But I thought I
would just strike up the conversation piece in hopes that someone might
take an interest in improving our situation.

Kevin

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org> wrote:

> As said before:
>
> 3. 24,712 valid are required. The best estimates I've heard for validity
> are 67%, which comes to 26,830. But valid signatures is not a number that's
> knowable with certainty, even with a theoretical unlimited resources. Our
> validity checkers may make different judgements than the Oklahoma elections
> officials in each county. We want plenty of extra signatures to be safe.
> The LNC is not paying for more signatures, but volunteer and local efforts
> continue.
>
>
> Also, some people read hand writing more carefully or less carefully than
> others.
> See Ohio for a recent surprise issue that happened.
> See Maine for another recent surprise.
> Ken Moellman gave you lots of comments on the topic separately.
> The LNC Ballot Access Committee might like to give even more reasons.
> See Alabama for a recent example (Paul Frankel can explain).
>
> Kevin, separately you wrote how you thought we should be spending more
> than $2.50 per signature. I'm sure the LP Oklahoma can arrange that for any
> amounts you donate.
>
> Wes Benedict, Executive Director
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> On 1/27/2016 7:19 PM, Kevin Ludlow wrote:
>
> Could somebody explain to me why we do not have the ability to know
> precisely how many verified signatures we have?
>
> I am absolutely certain that in Texas I have access to all voter data from
> the state.  I buy it regularly.  Given we are collecting the persons
> VoterID, name, and address, surely we can verify for ourselves.
>
> What stops us from doing this and what would it take to fix that?  It
> seems awfully strange that we guess and hope for the best.
>
> -Kevin
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