Dear Jason:
An excellent point. In addition, if the ALP Inc. is somehow not a true political party, then how can they be a state affiliate of a naional political party? By virtue of their presentation to the State, they cannot do the things for which the national party has affiliated them; ie: attain ballot status for their candidate under the Libertarian banner. Furthermore, if they ARE still registered LBT (and registering other voters LBT), then they are helping a competing political party.
Tim McDermott
In a message dated 5/27/2001 10:34:43 PM US Mountain Standard Time, auvenj@mailcity.com writes:
Sharon received her new voter registration card from the Pima County Recorder on Saturday.
The "Party" field reads LBT. <snip>
I will bring all of the documents to next weekend's ALP convention.
To summarize: Sharon attempted to register for ALP, Inc. in the clearest possible manner, specifying both the exact name of the organization and the filing number as registered with the Secretary of State. The registration form was sent via certified mail, which confirms that the state received it AND provides some assurance that it would be noticed as something out of the ordinary. We waited two months, to be sure the form had time to be processed. A phone call to the county registrar confirmed that the registration form was processed and the party preference field upon it was duly noted, at which time a new voter registration card was requested. The voter registration card places Sharon unambiguously in the Libertarian party -- "LBT."
Any questions?
I have one: How can ALP, Inc. be classified an "other organized political party" from ALP when it has now been shown to be IMPOSSIBLE to register for that party distinctly from ALP, and they don't qualify as either a new party or a continuing party under the statutory definition of a political party if they don't represent the registered Lets in Arizona?
When you add the results of this experiment to the statutory definition of a political party, the inescapable conclusion is that so long as the courts uphold the ruling that ALP, Inc. does not rpresent the registered Libertarians in Arizona, ALP, Inc. is NOT a political party at all.