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

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

Sure thing Alicia, I will get this out to Region 1.  They will be very
appreciative of this.

-Caryn Ann

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Daniel Hayes (ASC Chair),
>
> Would you forward my message below to the state chairs' email list?
> Region Reps, would you also forward this message to your state chairs to
> cover any who might not be on that email list?  Thank you for helping me
> with the distribution!
>
> -Alicia
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Dear State Chairs,
>
> As some of you will recall from a similar message I distributed in April,
> 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
>
> In April I proposed using those figures for purposes of calculating the
> above-described portion of delegate allocations.
>
> I have received no requests for modification of the numbers I proposed in
> April.  Thus, the final allocation of delegates based on Presidential vote
> totals is attached, and it is identical to the numbers distributed in
> April.  The 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
> sustaining members in your affiliate 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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