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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Richard Winger
[mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">richardwinger@yahoo.com</st1:PersonName>] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 11, 2015
1:55 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Scott L.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Executive Committee
meeting - (today) Friday,Dec 11 @ 5:30 p.m. re: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
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just as <st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State> checks, and all the other
states where we stay on because of our registration total...<st1:State w:st="on">Alaska</st1:State>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Arizona</st1:State>, <st1:State w:st="on">Colorado</st1:State>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Delaware</st1:State>, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State>. But registration is fairly
static, and it's very rare for it to decline when that states uses a voter
registration form that mentions us. Libertarian registration slowly goes
up and up just about everywhere, as long as we continue to be listed on the
form. It only declines in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:State></st1:place>,
where we went off the form in 2010 and have not ever re-qualified.</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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the Green Party finally got its own checkbox on the voter registration form,
their registration shot up from 2,152 in November 2000, to 13,272 in November
2002. It has been rising every since, because in all these years they
have been the only ballot-qualified third party. In November 2014 it was
an incredible 38,180.</span></font><font size=4 color=black face=Helvetica><span
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470296</st1:address></st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>I
asked our resident ballot access expert, Richard Winger.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-weight:bold'>probably</span></b> forever.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'> Lnc-business
[mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Norm Olsen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 11, 2015
12:37 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">lnc-business@hq.lp.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Lnc-business]
Executive Committee meeting - (today) Friday,Dec 11 @ 5:30 p.m. re: <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Maine</st1:place></st1:State></span></font><font
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>It
would be helpful if, at the Executive Committee meeting, someone could comment
with some authority on the duration of the ballot access which is to be
achieved by this effort. That is, is it not likely that with success here,
we are likely to enjoy ballot access for one or several future election cycles
as well?</span></font><font color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-family:
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Dr.
Lieberman: Can you help out here?</span></font><font color=black
face=Helvetica><span style='font-family:Helvetica;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Norm</span></font><font
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Calibri;color:#1F497D'>, <st1:State w:st="on">CO</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
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font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'> Lnc-business
[mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Wes Benedict<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 11, 2015
1:32 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">lnc-business@hq.lp.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> jmaderal@hotmail.com; Oliver
Hall<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Lnc-business] Executive
Committee meeting - (today) Friday, Dec 11 @ 5:30 p.m. re: <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Maine</st1:place></st1:State></span></font><font color=black
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an Executive Committee teleconference on Friday, December 11 on the subject of
Proposed Litigation in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Maine</st1:place></st1:State>
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Date: Friday, December 11<br>
Time: 5:30 p.m. Eastern / 2:30 p.m. Pacific<br>
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