<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Daniel Hayes (ASC Chair), <br><br>Would you forward my message below to the state chairs' email list? Region Reps, would you also forward this message to your state chairs to cover any who might not be on that email list? Thank you for helping me with the distribution!<br><br>-Alicia<br><br>------------------------------<wbr>--------------------<br></div><div><br>Dear State Chairs,<br><br>As some of you will recall from a similar message I distributed in April, there
are two components to calculating the number of <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">delegates</span> each
Libertarian Party affiliate is entitled to send to a national
convention. One component is based on the number of sustaining members
in that affiliate. The second component is established by LP Bylaws
Article 10.3.b as follows:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px">"<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;color:black">One <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">delegate</span> for each 0.35
percent, or fraction thereof, of the votes cast nationwide for the Libertarian
Party candidate in the most recent presidential election, cast in that
affiliate's state.</span>"<br></div><br>The Libertarian National Committee has the following policy:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px">"The Secretary shall distribute to each affiliate party the
Presidential vote totals which the Secretary proposes to use for purposes of
<span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">delegate</span> <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">allocation</span> for National Conventions as provided for in the Bylaws, no
later than the last day of April in the year following a Presidential election.
If any Party member seeks a modification of the vote totals proposed by the
Secretary, the member shall file with the Secretary a written request to modify
the totals along with any documentation supporting the request no later than
the last day of May of the same year. The Secretary shall review all such
requests to modify the Presidential vote totals and distribute a final
<span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">allocation</span> of <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">delegates</span> based on Presidential vote totals no later than the
last day of July of the same year."<br></div><br></div><div>The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has published the certified 2016 Presidential election results online at:<br><br><a href="http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2016/2016presgeresults.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe20<wbr>16/2016presgeresults.pdf</a><br><br>In April I proposed using those figures for purposes of calculating
the above-described portion of <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">delegate</span> <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">allocations</span>.<br><br><div>I have received no requests for modification of the numbers I
proposed in April. Thus, the final allocation of delegates based on
Presidential vote totals is attached, and it is identical to the numbers
distributed in April. The document shows the <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">delegate</span> <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">allocation</span> formula applied to those
numbers published by the FEC, showing how many <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">delegates</span> your affiliate
would earn based on that portion of our bylaws.<br></div><br>Just to be very clear, <u>this is not your entire <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">delegate</span> <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">allocation</span> for the 2018 convention</u>.
This is only part of the formula. The count of sustaining members
in your affiliate will be updated as of 11/30/17, and then I will provide you with your
full <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">delegate</span> <span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-il">allocations</span>.<span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-"><br><br></span></div><span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-">Alicia Mattson<br></span></div><span class="m_-828463140118743729gmail-">LNC Secretary<br><br></span></div>