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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The Bylaws state that the Convention Committees (Bylaws, Platform and Credentials) be comprised of ten, twenty and ten “members”, respectively.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Bylaws also state that “only sustaining members shall be eligible to hold National Party office”.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The question I have is whether or not members of Convention Committees must be sustaining members, because they meet the criteria of “National Party office”. Please do not debate this point I raise on the lnc-business list. Argue away on lnc-discuss.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I bring this up here, because I think this can be argued either way.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I want to let you know that I have directed staff to identify the membership status of each of the applicants on the final ballots we will use (regardless of which method we use). I feel the information is useful to me in making my voting choices, and I hope you will find it useful as well. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Geoffrey Neale<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>