[Lnc-business] Ballot Access Petitioning

[Nicholas Sarwark]

Oliver Hall is coordinating our response to all states that have petition
requirements, I encourage state chairs to contact Daniel Fishman to stay in
the loop.

-Nick

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:04 PM Tim Hagan via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> NY Governor Cuomo said NY needs to come up with an answer to political
> petitioning. "This is not the best time to send people door to door." He
> doesn't know the specifics to a solution but knows it's something that
> has to be addressed.
>
> Mr. Fishman sent a letter to the state of Maryland concerning ballot
> access petitioning when the government is pushing for social distancing.
> We should get proactive with Illinois, Alabama, and other states with
> high petitioning requirements (like AR, PA, ME, VA) and work with the
> state affiliates to send similar letters to the Governor and election
> authority in those states, seeking emergency relief from petitioning
> requirements since the party was on the ballot during the last election.
>
>
> --
> Tim Hagan
> Treasurer, Libertarian National Committee
>