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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“<a
href="http://www.ballot-access.org/2015/01/new-york-bill-to-make-definition-of-political-party-more-restrictive/">Ballot
Access News</a>: (via IPR)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>New York
Assemblyman Gary Pretlow (D-Mt. Vernon) has introduced AB 838. It would alter
the definition of “political party” from a group that got 50,000
votes for Governor, to a group that got 100,000 votes for Governor. If passed,
it would take effect for elections starting in 2016. Thus, it would remove the <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Independence</st1:place></st1:City>,
Women’s Equality, and Stop Common Core Parties from the ballot.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><cite><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal'>And the Chair of the LPNY commented
on IPR:<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></cite></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><cite><b><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>“Mark Axinn</span></font></i></b>
</cite><a
href="http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2015/01/new-york-bill-to-make-definition-of-political-party-more-restrictive/#comment-1069415"><time datetime="2015-01-13T07:34:53+00:00">January
13, 2015 at 7:34 am</time></a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Obviously,
if this bill were ever enacted, it would be a disaster for the Libertarian
Party of New York. I urge every New Yorker to contact his/her local
Assemblymember and urge him/her to oppose this Draconian restriction.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Dear
fellow LNC members:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>I
disagree with the Chair of the LPNY. Since the LPNY has failed the current
vote test 10 in a row since 1972, this bill would be psychologically annoying,
but it would not in any way be a “disaster”. The LPNY has never
had semi-permanent ballot access, so they would not be losing anything.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>If
I lived in New York, I would be heavily lobbying to add to that bill the requirement
that the Elections Department change the ballot layout so that each party on
the ballot gets its own column (Row?), and that <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>all</span></b> statewide offices count for the vote test. And maybe
change the vote test from 50,000 votes to 2% or 3% of the vote for Governor. (1%
would be nice, but would probably fall on deaf ears).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>I
suspect there are not enough minor party activists who care enough to complain,
so directly opposing the bill will, IMO, not work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>
Scott Lieberman<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>bcc:
Mark Axinn, Richard Winger (bcc to protect their e-mail addresses from
spammers)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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