[Lnc-business] requesting ballot access info for May 2 meeting

[Alicia Mattson]

To help the LNC make a more informed decision on May 2 about our viable
options, it would be helpful if the Ballot Access Committee could provide
us with some information by then:

1) For affiliates in which we do not yet have ballot access, the list of
deadlines for naming a candidate and petitioning to get them on the
ballot.  I know this info is usually in your reports for LNC meetings, but
that info may have changed since the last meeting as a result of
legislative waivers, judicial relief, etc.

2)  The nomination certificates which we send to many Secretaries of State
to designate our nominees have particular wording developed over the years
to meet various nuances of state laws.  One of its clauses asserts that a
convention of delegates convened in [location] on [dates] and nominated
these particular candidates.  That wording may be there because it's
important for particular state laws.

COC members have also been told by some members that if the convention were
(HYPOTHETICALLY) just outright cancelled, and the LNC considered there to
be a vacancy in our presidential ticket, thus the LNC filled the vacancy,
that some states would not accept that nomination because the state law
requires delegates in a convention to select the nominee.

So my second data request is whether the Ballot Access Committee could tell
us for all 51 affiliates what the legal nuances are about how the nominees
must be chosen.  We know that delegates nominating from an in-person
convention is peachy.  Would we potentially have legal challenges if it
were done by some means other than delegates meeting in person to cast
votes?  If so, which states, and what do they require?

It could be that some of these answers are better suited for an executive
session with our legal counsel present, but they're things the LNC needs to
weigh when we're trying to consider options.

-Alicia