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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>I could not find an equivalent summary for the 2014
elections, but 2012 is recent enough to still be relevant.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'><a
href="http://www.greenpartywatch.org/category/local-elections/page/4/">http://www.greenpartywatch.org/category/local-elections/page/4/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“2012
Green Party Election Wrap-up by the numbers</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>1/6/2013<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>by
Brent McMillan</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>313 green
party candidates ran for election in 2012. By comparison 308 green party
candidates ran for election in 2008, 437 green party candidates ran for
election in 2004 and 282 green party candidates ran for election in 2000, the
presidential election years.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Three out
of four offices that greens ran for in 2012 were partisan, by my count, 235.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>45 greens
were elected to office in 2012, 14% of those who ran. Of those Greens won 50%
of the non-partisan offices that they ran for and only 3% of the partisan.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Twenty of
the 45, less that half, were incumbents seeking re-election.<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'>Six of
the wins were partisan:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'> Alvin Clay was elected to Mississippi County
Justice of the Peace, District 6, AR.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'>
Kade
Holliday was elected to Craighead County Clerk, AR.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'>
Fred Smith
was elected to State Representative District 50, AR.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'> Roger
Watkins was elected to Craighead County Constable District 6, AR.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'> Art Goodtimes was
re-elected to San Miquel County Commissioner District 3, CO.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'>Korine Elizabeth Bachleda was re-elected to Newberg Township
Clerk in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Cass County</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">MI</st1:State></st1:place>.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Note that the Green Party candidates were 17 times more likely
to win if they were in a non-partisan election than if they were in a partisan
election.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Also note that their partisan wins were at the municipal
level except for one State Representative (who had previously served in that
position as a Democrat), and 2 County level positions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to tell potential
donors that the Libertarian Party elected over a hundred Libertarians to office
in 2016, and that our success rate in non-partisan elections was 20% or 30%, or
even 40%? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Does anyone really think that bragging about increases
from 3% to 5% in State House races is really going to convince libertarians to show
up at County Libertarian Party Meetings or show up at State LP Conventions?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> Scott Lieberman<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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