FW: Ballot Access Report

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From: Evan McMahon <evan.m...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 3:22:18 PM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
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Subject: Ballot Access Report

Colleagues,

Attached please find the report from the Ballot Access Committee submitted by committee chair Steve Dasbach. The report includes request to appropriate funds for a ballot drive in Massachusetts. 

In Liberty,

Evan

Evan McMahon Secretary Libertarian National Committee evan.m...@lp.org ‪(317) 455-6986 lp.org

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From: Andrew Chadderdon <andrew.c...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 5:44:40 PM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
To: Evan McMahon <evan.m...@lp.org>; Entire LNC <entir...@lp.org>
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Subject: Re: Ballot Access Report

Mr. Secretary, colleagues,

I have several concerns about the Ballot Access Committee report and the $45,000 Massachusetts request that should be addressed before this body acts on it.

The report cannot keep its own central rationale straight. The motion text states the candidate "is running in a race with no Republican." The priorities section, justifying the same expenditure, states "there is no Democrat in the race." These cannot both be true. Whichever was intended, the committee did not catch the contradiction in its own work product before bringing this $45,000 request to the body for action "asap." That is not the standard of care a request of this size should reflect from the committee responsible for it.

The request also shows no documented LPMA financial contribution. The Maryland entry of the same report accounts for approximately $28,000 in LPMD funds applied to that drive on top of the $15,000 the LNC has already provided. The Massachusetts request, by contrast, is a $45,000 LNC encumbrance with no documented state contribution, no documented fundraising plan, and no documented volunteer collection effort. State affiliates own their ballot access; LNC support supplements state effort, it does not substitute for it. What has LPMA committed? What has been raised? What is the volunteer plan?

The request is presented for action "asap." If the petitioning window and cost structure were known to the committee earlier — and they were — this body should be shown what was attempted and ruled out before defaulting to the largest available LNC ask. A request brought to this body on a rushed timeline should at minimum reflect the work the committee has already undertaken to mitigate it.

I will support a vote that is properly informed. I do not believe this report, as filed, supports the request as filed.

Andrew Chadderdon

Region 1 Rep | Libertarian National Committee

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From: Evan McMahon <evan.m...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 11:22:18 AM

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Subject: Ballot Access Report

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From: Travis Bost <travi...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 5:51:56 PM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
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Subject: Re: Ballot Access Report

I am also curious as to who the encumbrance is being directed to; that is, the recognized affiliate, the candidate's committee, another third-party, etc. I understand that Massachusetts ballot access and party formation laws are notoriously absurd, but we need to know where it is going.

Travis L. Bost

LNC At-Large

Travi...@LP.org

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From: Andrew Chadderdon <andrew.c...@lp.org>
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From: Bill Redpath <bill.r...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 6:13:22 PM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik

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Subject: Re: Ballot Access Report

It should have read that there is no Republican in the race. There is an incumbent Democrat.

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From: Andrew Chadderdon <andrew.c...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 1:44 PM

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From: Travis Bost <travi...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 6:18:45 PM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
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Subject: Re: Ballot Access Report

Thank you, Mr. Treasurer. Who is requesting the assistance?

Travis L. Bost

LNC At-Large

Travi...@LP.org

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From: Bill Redpath <bill.r...@lp.org>
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From: Bill Redpath <bill.r...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 6:21:48 PM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
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Subject: Re: Ballot Access Report

Charlie Larkin, who is the LPMA State Auditor candidate.

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From: Travis Bost <travi...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 2:18 PM

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From: Andrew Chadderdon <andrew.c...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 7:22:01 PM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
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Subject: Re: Ballot Access Report

Thank you for those replies.

To follow on Mr. Bost's question: my recollection is that Massachusetts has a structural distinction between the LNC's recognition of a state affiliate organization and the state's statutory recognition of a party for ballot purposes — based on factors independent of the LNC's affiliate determination. Can the committee clarify how this distinction operates here? Specifically: which entity would be the formal petitioner submitting signatures, which entity would hold any resulting statutory ballot status, and the relationship of each to the LNC-recognized state affiliate?

Before introducing a ballot on this matter, would you mind answering these questions, as well as the other substantive ones from my first reply?

Andrew Chadderdon

Region 1 Rep | Libertarian National Committee

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From: Bill Redpath <bill.r...@lp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 2:21:48 PM

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From: Ben Weir <ben....@lp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2026 1:34:37 AM (UTC+00:00) Monrovia, Reykjavik
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Subject: Re: Ballot Access Report

I'd like to recommend an amendment to the budget and lower the total expenditures for ballot access to $0. 

I also recommend a secondary account get set up where people can donate and earmark funds specifically for ballot access, where the only money that goes toward it is from that account IF it gets raised.

Stop bankrupting the Party.

 

In Liberty,

Ben Weir

Region 6 Alt

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From: Andrew Chadderdon <andrew.c...@lp.org>
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