>On Tue, May 2, 2006 4:12 pm, Bill Vojtech said:
>> I'm just saying maybe we have to think about some sort of rules about
>> who can nominate or be nominated at the convention. A party member for
>> X years prior to being able to nominate or to get nominated? No day-of
>> convention party joiners can get nominated?
>
>We already have provisions -- at least in the Manhattan chapter and at the
>state level -- to prohibit people from signing up and voting the day of
>the convention. (The problem is, at least in Manhattan, we've been rather
>lax about enforcing the rules.) But as I mentioned earlier, those rules
>won't help us much when the Board of Election rules trump our internal
>rules as far as running candidates.
>
>Jim
You may recall that three supporters of Audrey Silk for Mayor showed up at
the City Convention, paid $15 each on the day of the convention, and voted
for Audrey for Mayor.
Without those three votes she would not have had the 2/3rds majority to run
and perhaps we could have gotten a Libertarian to run instead.
None of those three who paid $15 each were ever seen or heard from again.
In addition, Audrey herself claimed that she was a member of the
Libertarian Party. This was apparently just a lie, as her name does not
appear on any county list of Libertarian Party members.
Jim L. was at that meeting. I did not see him object. To the contrary he
seemed to be protecting Audrey from being asked about those questions.
We got what we deserved. Audrey Silk got 0.25% of the vote, the lowest
percentage vote total of any Libertarian Party candidate ever.
Sam Sloan
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