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

[bad at lpillinois.org]

Primary Day is Tuesday, June 28, not June 26.  Bill Redpath

On 2022-05-17 09:21, Steve Suess via Lpil-bod wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> April
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