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

[Steve Suess]

Russ makes an excellent point. Petitioning outside Primary polling
locations will yield 100% validity.

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 11:11 PM treasurer--- via Lpil-bod <
lpil-bod at lists.lpillinois.org> wrote:

> 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.
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> April
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