[LPIL - Board of Directors] March and April Treasurer's report

[treasurer at lpillinois.org]

To all,

                Sorry for posting the March report a month late.  I did give
a brief verbal report at the emergency meeting and forgot about the formal
one last month.  For ballot access, we have spent to date $6,250 in
agreement with the Redpath campaign to share costs for paid petitioning.
$3,125 was spent in April and another $3,125 has been spent this month.  I
had recorded 2 generous donations earmarked for ballot access specifically
totaling $2,026.12.  I consider these funds spent as we have spent more than
that to date. Additional spending will be allocated from general donations. 

 

               I also want to ask something from all the board members
tonight and really all Libertarian Party members.  June 26 is primary day
and we Libertarians have a golden opportunity to petition outside of these
poling locations.  I do not know how many signatures we may get BUT
gathering signatures outside of the poling place could yield fantastic
results.  I would ask that all Libertarian Party members take Primary Day
off to stand outside of a polling precinct and gather signatures.  Most
downstate counties do not have enough people to canvass outside the precinct
so we should not have any confrontations provided we are 100 feet away from
the polling place.  If the precinct is on private property, the property
owner may ask us to leave so its best to use precincts that are public
property such as schools or fire departments.  I would be happy to assist
any and all chairs with finding the largest voting locations (ie. Multiple
precincts) for their volunteers.  Ideally, no more than 4 volunteers at a
location but I don't want a group of lone rangers either.  I personally will
be doing this so I'm not asking any party member to do something I am not
willing to do myself.

 

May 19 is the start of Early Voting in Illinois.  All early voting locations
will be at the clerk's office until at least June 1 if not later.  Cook will
start having early voting campuses around June 3 (due to ward maps) and
suburban counties a bit after that. MOST downstate counties will not have
additional early voting locations.  If possible, I would also ask that party
members be willing to give up a lunch break and petition at the county
clerk's office for 1 or 2 days a week during early voting.  If you don't
know where that is, I can provide that information as well.  I personally
will be doing this.

 

                I'd like to remind you that I am a resource for your
canvassing and election efforts.  I have each statewide result and general
assembly result broken down by precinct. If you want to go door to door for
signatures, I can give you a list of voters that avoids bad demographics for
us AND help you identify which precincts to canvas.  Ideally, we want to
canvas in precincts with high past LP votes.  This is particularly true
where the LP ran candidates in 2020 against incumbent Democratic candidates.
Republicans in these precincts see the LP as "willing to do something" where
the GOP refuses to do so as the district is too gerrymandered to be
competitive.  "Doing something" means they are more likely to sign
particularly since the GOP primary is a mess and they can't be guaranteed
the candidate they prefer.  Again

 

Finally, the numbers.

 



 

April





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