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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Since he wants you to
see it, I am forwarding the LPNY Chair’s e-mail to the rest of you.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>If the LP of NY was
self-funding all of their ballot access drives, then I would agree with the
LPNY Chair’s comment immediately below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>However, since most or
all of their ballot access petitions have had substantial financial support
from the National LP, then <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>IT IS </span></b>the
LNC’s business to make sure that our affiliates are taking the best possible
actions to minimize their need for financial support from the National LP for
future ballot access drives.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Even if the LPNY is
successful in somehow stopping this new bill, that will not get them any closer
to not needing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>tens of thousands of dollars
of National LP money every 2 years for the foreseeable future.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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I hope that my fellow LNC members would like to save our National LP members as
much money as possible by helping LPNY lobby for a new ballot access bill that requires
the NY State election ballot to have separate columns for each party that is on
that ballot, and for their vote test to be a more typical 2% or 3% for any statewide
office, and that passing the vote test gives 4 years of ballot access (as it
currently does in NY).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>As I have mentioned
before, we have 3 LP members who have volunteered to give free advice on
lobbying to our affiliates for situations just like this one.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'> Scott Lieberman<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">mark axinn</st1:PersonName> [mailto:markaxinn@hotmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 15, 2015
9:48 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Scott Lieberman<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> LP-State Chairs; Arvin Vohra;
Richard Tomasso; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Vicki Kirkland</st1:PersonName>;
William Redpath; Josh Katz; Dan Wiener; Alicia Mattson; Tim Hagen; Norm Olsen;
Jim Lark; Sam Goldstein; Evan McMahon; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Guy McLendon</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: Bad ballot access
bill proposed in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:State></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=black
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Scott--</span></font><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'><br>
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<font color=black><span style='color:black'>Obviously, I disagree with you, as
does my membership. Please do not tell us how to run things in <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:State> and I promise
not to meddle into the affairs of the California LP.</span></font><br>
<br>
<font color=black><span style='color:black'>Thank you. </span></font><br>
<br>
Mark Axinn<br>
<br>
P.S. Since you sent your message to the LNC and I do not have access to
that list, I am cc'g those members for whom I do have email addresses. I
am sure I am leaving several others out, and of course do so merely because I
don't have their addresses. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>From: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">scott73@earthlink.net</st1:PersonName><br>
To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">lnc-business@lp.org</st1:PersonName><br>
Subject: Bad ballot access bill proposed in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:State><br>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 06:39:27 -0800<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><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/"
target="_blank">Ballot Access News</a>: (via IPR)</span></font><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'><br>
</span></font>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.”<font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></i></b></cite><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<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:</span></font></i></cite><font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:
Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></i></b></cite><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></i></b></cite><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<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><cite><i><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'> </span></font></i></cite><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'><a
href="http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2015/01/new-york-bill-to-make-definition-of-political-party-more-restrictive/#comment-1069415"
target="_blank"><time datetime="2015-01-13T07:34:53+00:00">January 13, 2015 at
7:34 am</time></a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><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.” <font
color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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>
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font-family:Calibri'><br>
</span></font><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.</span></font><font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'><br>
</span></font><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).</span></font><font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'><br>
</span></font><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.</span></font><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> Scott Lieberman</span></font><font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><font face=Calibri><span
style='font-family:Calibri'><br>
</span></font><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)</span></font><font
face=Calibri><span style='font-family:Calibri'><br>
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</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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