[Lnc-business] bullies in Ohio

[Alicia Mattson]

In the email blast below, it mentions that the LNC expects to spend $130k
on Ohio.

Didn't we budget $130k total for ballot access, comprised of $100k for Ohio
and $30k for Arkansas?

Was that figure in the email a typo, or is this an indication that the cost
estimates have shifted substantially upward?

-Alicia




On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Wes Benedict <info at lp.org> wrote:

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> Dear Libertarian,
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> In Ohio, election law is the rule of the land and applied equally to
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> Last Friday, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected our lawsuit over the
> Secretary of State's improper decision to prevent our ballot access. The
> Secretary of State had ruled that the vote totals received by our
> Presidential nominee didn't count towards our ballot access.
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> Ohio law has a 3% threshold for a group of voters who nominated a
> candidate to be recognized as a political party. A group of voters
> nominated Gary Johnson for President and he got 3.17% of the vote. So by
> the plain reading of the law, that group of voters should be recognized as
> a political party.
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> Gary Johnson was nominated as an independent because Ohio Republicans
> kicked the Libertarian Party off the ballot. But the Republican Secretary
> of State won't recognize that group of independent voters because they are
> Libertarians and want to be called the Libertarian Party.
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> So the Ohio Libertarian Party filed suit in December and last week the
> Ohio Supreme Court ruled 6-1 against us.
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> This was disappointing but not at all surprising. We knew from a long
> history of dealing with officials in Ohio that the Ohio Supreme Court would
> likely twist itself into a pretzel to defend the Secretary of State's abuse
> of the law.
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> *So, we are going to do what Libertarians do. We are going to roll up our
> sleeves and continue to fight this injustice and stand up to the bullies of
> big government.*
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> We will not allow these tyrannical bureaucrats in Ohio to keep us off the
> ballot.
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> We'll do what has to be done to make sure that in 2018 every Ohioan will
> have Libertarian candidates on their ballot.
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> This will require a LOT of signed petitions. That work is already underway.
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> It will cost the national party $130,000 and the Ohio Libertarian Party
> roughly the same. But, together, we'll make it happen.
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> We have the national experts on ballot access working on our behalf to
> make progress in Ohio and other states. We are determined to secure ballot
> access in every state and DC for every election from here on out. It is
> the most important function of the national party. But we can only do this
> with your help.
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> If you'd like to join us in fighting these bullies in Ohio and other
> states, please give generously to our Ballot Access Fund
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> As always, thank you for your support of the Libertarian Party.
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> Nicholas Sarwark
> Chair, Libertarian National Committee
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