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

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

I will take care of for Region 1

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:36 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------------------------
> 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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-- 
*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 <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
<http://www.lpcolorado.org>
Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
<http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>
Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee

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