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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Richard Winger has an interesting chart in the August 1,
2015 issue of Ballot Access News.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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He notes that there are likely to be many states with at least 16 candidates on
the ballot in their 2016 Republican Presidential Primary. However, no state
legislature this year has made access to the presidential primary ballot more
difficult.<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'>This proves that state legislatures don’t <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>really </span></b>believe that ballots with greater
than a dozen candidates for a single office cause voter confusion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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This chart and his observation will be useful when the LP litigates to lower
the percentage needed to pass the vote test for ballot access retention in
states with percentages that are worse than 5% for any statewide office.<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'>We do want to maximize the number of states where the
Libertarian Party has ballot access in December of even numbered years, don’t
we?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Scott Lieberman<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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