[Lnc-business] Partial delegate allocations based on 2016 Presidential vote

[Alicia Mattson]

Regional Representatives,

I am asking for your assistance.  I need to transmit the information below
to our state chairs.  I am not on the LSLA email list, and the most recent
contact list I have for state chairs is almost a year old.  I know that
many affiliates have changed leadership since then.  Would you help me make
sure this information reaches the current chairs by forwarding this to the
state chairs in your region?  Thank you.  -Alicia

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Dear State Chairs,

There are two components to calculating the number of delegates each
Libertarian Party affiliate is entitled to send to a national convention.
One component is based on the number of sustaining members in that
affiliate.  The second component is established by LP Bylaws Article 10.3.b
as follows:

"One delegate for each 0.35 percent, or fraction thereof, of the votes cast
nationwide for the Libertarian Party candidate in the most recent
presidential election, cast in that affiliate's state."

The Libertarian National Committee has the following policy:

"The Secretary shall distribute to each affiliate party the Presidential
vote totals which the Secretary proposes to use for purposes of delegate
allocation for National Conventions as provided for in the Bylaws, no later
than the last day of April in the year following a Presidential election.
If any Party member seeks a modification of the vote totals proposed by the
Secretary, the member shall file with the Secretary a written request to
modify the totals along with any documentation supporting the request no
later than the last day of May of the same year. The Secretary shall review
all such requests to modify the Presidential vote totals and distribute a
final allocation of delegates based on Presidential vote totals no later
than the last day of July of the same year."

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has published the certified 2016
Presidential election results online at:

http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2016/2016presgeresults.pdf

These are the numbers that I propose to use for purposes of calculating the
above-described portion of delegate allocations.

The attached document shows the delegate allocation formula applied to
those numbers published by the FEC, showing how many delegates your
affiliate would earn based on that portion of our bylaws.

Just to be very clear, *this is not your entire delegate allocation for the
2018 convention*.  This is only part of the formula.  The count of your
sustaining members will be updated as of 11/30/17, and then I will provide
you with your full delegate allocations.

Alicia Mattson
LNC Secretary
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