[Lnc-business] IL Win & Proposed TX Lawsuit

[Richard Longstreth]

Great stuff, thank you Oliver

Richard Longstreth
Region 1 Representative (AK, AZ, CO, HI, KS, MT, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY)
Libertarian National Committee
richard.longstreth at lp.org
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 09:39 Oliver Hall via Lnc-business <
lnc-business at hq.lp.org> wrote:

> We won our motion for preliminary injunction in the Illinois case
> yesterday.
>
> The Court's opinion and order are attached.
>
> LPIL is now entitled to automatic ballot access in 2020 for all offices
> for which it ran a candidate in either 2018 or 2016. That means the LP
> candidates are now on the ballot for President and U.S. Senate (I don't
> think the LP was on the ballot in Illinois for any other offices in the
> last two general elections, but if it was, it is automatically qualified
> for those offices in 2020 as well).
>
> For all other offices, the signature requirement is 10 percent of the
> statutory requirement, and the filing deadline was extended to August 7.
> There is no notary requirement, candidates can submit photocopies of the
> petitions, and petitions can be signed electronically, collected via
> email, etc. I suspect that even with that substantial relief, this will
> be a very difficult requirement to meet, but the judge was not willing
> to go lower, or to require the Board of Elections to establish a
> procedure for voters to submit signatures directly via email or an
> online platform.
>
> As for the proposed Texas litigation, I would need to know what harm the
> LNC has incurred as a result of the Texas governor's orders. Unless the
> LNC has sustained some direct, concrete injury, it would not have
> standing to join the case. LPTexas likely would, but even so, LPTexas
> needs to be able to assert some concrete injury. Additionally, we are
> already litigating in federal court on behalf of LPTexas, and the
> Governor agreed to allow LPTexas to postpone the date of its convention
> and/or to hold it online, so I would be very wary of any proposal that
> LPTexas join another lawsuit in state court to litigate related issues.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oliver
>