<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-size: 13px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style><div style="font-size: 13px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This approach of committees filling their own vacancies without regard to convention delegates' preferences on the grounds that only a minority of candidates for those vacancies received the affirmative approval of a majority of delegates seems ill-advised to me. Failing to receive such approval is clearly not the same thing as receiving the delegates' active <i>disapproval</i>. Nor is there any guarantee that subsequently appointed members of a committee would have received majority approval at convention. It is possible that one or more individuals appointed in this case would have received a lower approval percentage than the four next highest vote-getters at the convention had they chosen to actively run for seats on the Judicial Committee. <div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>We seem to have a situation in which a majority of the candidates for office receiving the most votes at convention are routinely <i>not</i> meeting the 50% threshold required by "approval voting". Thus if the method employed by the remaining members of the Judicial Committee in proposing to fill the vacancies were to become standard practice, the result could be a significant disenfranchisement our membership</b>. it raises the prospect that an individual could have a better chance of getting onto a committee by privately expressing his or her interest in serving to the existing committee members, than by actually running for the position and seeking the approval of convention delegates. I do not think LP members anticipated or desired such an outcome when they were convinced to adopt approval voting.<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I therefore urge the members of the Judicial Committee to reconsider this decision, and appoint the next four highest vote-getters to the four seats in question, as the LNC did in filling the majority of its vacancies which were similarly unfilled as a result of m Indeed ost of the delegates' choices not receiving more than 50% of the vote. My recommendation is not based on any political favoritism toward those individuals – with whose identities I am in any case not acquainted – or any animus toward Michael Badnarik, John Buttrick, Bill Hall, and Rob Latham, all of whom strike me as sound and well-qualified choices. I write strictly from the point of view of upholding bottom-up, grassroots governance in the Libertarian Party.</div><div><br></div><div>Love & Liberty,</div><div> ((( starchild )))</div><div>At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee</div><div> (415) 625-FREE<br><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-left: #0000ff 2px solid; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black;">-----Original Message-----
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<br>Subject: Re: [Lnc-votes] [Lnc-business] Fwd: Remaining Members of Judicial Committee Fill Vacancies
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>I have been asked by a member in my region to inquire:</div><div><br></div>Can someone verify eligibility for the three elected and 4 appointed members? Specifically, can the " All Judicial Committee members shall have
been Party members at least four years at the time of their selection." portion?<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Brett C. Bittner<div><br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="mailto:brett@brettbittner.com">brett@brettbittner.com</a></div><div>404.492.6524</div><div><div><br></div><div>"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Alicia Mattson <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:secretary@lp.org">secretary@lp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Forwarding a message by request.<br></div><br>-Alicia<br><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Gary Johnson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:sedition@aol.com">sedition@aol.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:03 PM<br>Subject: Remaining Members of Judicial Committee Fill Vacancies<br>To: <a target="_blank" href="mailto:secretary@lp.org">secretary@lp.org</a>, <a target="_blank" href="mailto:AliciaDearn@bellatrixlaw.com">AliciaDearn@bellatrixlaw.com</a>, <a target="_blank" href="mailto:chuck@moulton.org">chuck@moulton.org</a>, <a target="_blank" href="mailto:scholar@constitutionpreservation.org">scholar@constitutionpreservation.org</a>, <a target="_blank" href="mailto:jabuttrick@gmail.com">jabuttrick@gmail.com</a>, <a target="_blank" href="mailto:whall@wnj.com">whall@wnj.com</a>, <a target="_blank" href="mailto:rob@roblatham.pro">rob@roblatham.pro</a><br>Cc: Rebecca Sink-Burris <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:rebecca.sinkburris@gmail.com">rebecca.sinkburris@gmail.com</a>>, Roger Roots <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:rogerroots@msn.com">rogerroots@msn.com</a>>, Michael Dixon <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:dixonconsultinginc@gmail.com">dixonconsultinginc@gmail.com</a>>, M Carling <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:mcarling@gmail.com">mcarling@gmail.com</a>>, John Bowers <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:bojo3191@aol.com">bojo3191@aol.com</a>>, Michael Kielsky <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:Michael@krazlaw.com">Michael@krazlaw.com</a>>, mikeljane <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:mikeljane@gmail.com">mikeljane@gmail.com</a>>, steven r Linnabary <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:linnabary51@gmail.com">linnabary51@gmail.com</a>>, Robert Jim Fulner <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:jim.fulner@member.fsf.org">jim.fulner@member.fsf.org</a>>, "Christopher R. Maden" <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:crism@maden.org">crism@maden.org</a>>, Jeffrey Mortenson <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:jwmort@yahoo.com">jwmort@yahoo.com</a>>, Thomas Robert Stevens <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:drtomstevens@aol.com">drtomstevens@aol.com</a>>, Tom Lippman <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:tnlippman@juno.com">tnlippman@juno.com</a>><br><br><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="black" size="2">
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Alicia Mattson,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please post this message online on the LNC Business list:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Judicial Committee is supposed to have seven members. Only three received a majority in the approval voting process at the 2016 national convention.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The three members of the Judicial Committee elected by the delegates, Alicia Dearn, Gary Johnson of Texas, and Chuck Moulton, have communicated by email.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We have ruled unanimously that, as the "remaining members" of the committee, we have the authority to fill vacancies, although we are less than the quorum of five specified in the bylaws.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We have decided informally to reject, by 1 to 2, the idea of filling the vacancies with the next four vote getters.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We have decided unanimously to fill the vacancies with four individuals who were not nominated at the convention and therefore were not "disapproved" of by a majority of the delegates in the approval voting process.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We have voted unanimously by email ballot to fill the vacancies with Michael Badnarik, John Buttrick, Bill Hall, and Rob Latham.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Chuck Moulton</font></div>
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