Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:25:41 -0700
From: ernesthancock@inficad.com ("Ernest Hancock")
Subject: [lpaz-xcom] Fw: (no subject)
To: lpaz-xcom@egroups.com ("lpaz-xcom")
Reply-To: lpaz-xcom@egroups.com
I just forwarded the article in today's paper :)
Ernie
-----Original Message-----
From: David Bergland <dpbergland@earthlink.net>
To: Ernest Hancock <ernesthancock@inficad.com>
Cc: SteveDasbach@compuserve.com <SteveDasbach@compuserve.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: (no subject)
>Ernie:
>
>Received your message with the Arizona Republic story re you not posting
>voter data online - for now. Thanks for keeping me posted.
>
>In the overall scheme of things, thinking of the long term interests of
>the LP, it probably would be best not to post the information. I am
>sure you have already considered the arguments. I'm just sharing my
>opinion that public perception of the Party would probably be damaged
>more than helped. At the same time, I surely understand your reason for
>wanting to use the situation to publicize the dangers to privacy of the
>existing state of the law. It's never easy deciding where to stand when
>the costs and benefits are difficult to determine in advance.
>
>Of course, my greatest concern is for the health of the Party in Arizona
>and how what's going on there might affect ballot status for the LP
>presidential ticket and other candidates. I'd like to know your views
>on that question. I do assume that you don't want to do anything to
>jeopardize ballot position. So please let me know if there is any
>reason for concern and, if so, what might be done about it.
>
>David Bergland
>
>--------------original message-------------
>
>Subject:
> (no subject)
> Date:
> Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:15:02 -0700
> From:
> Ernest Hancock <ernesthancock@inficad.com>
> To:
> dpbergland@earthlink.net
>
>
>Voter data won't be put online for now
>
> But Libertarian still could do so
>
> By Robbie Sherwood
> The Arizona Republic
> Feb. 19, 2000
>
> Libertarian Ernie Hancock will not post the personal
>information of
> a million Arizona voters on the Internet Feb. 23 as
>threatened.
>
> Or at least he promised that he wouldn't. Maricopa County
> elections officials failed to gain a restraining order
>Friday prohibiting
> the mass posting until a judge decides whether Hancock's
>plan is
> legal.
>
> The county would have a case for contempt of court if
>Hancock
> posted the material, but Hancock is not precluded from
>following
> through on his plan before a March 20 hearing on the
>matter,
> Presiding Superior Court Judge Robert Myers ruled.
>
> Attorneys for the county pressed Myers for a restraining
>order,
> saying they do not believe Hancock will keep his word
>about not
> posting the information.
>
> "He has said numerous times that he does not mind going to
>jail,"
> Deputy County Attorney Jill Kennedy said. "He has made
> numerous statements that he is going to do what he wants
>to do."
>
> Hancock, Maricopa County Libertarian Party chairman,
>gained
> access to the mailing lists of registered voters last
>month when
> Myers ruled that his group was an official party. The
> taxpayer-funded databases are provided free to political
>parties,
> and political campaigns must pay for their use. The
>databases
> contain addresses, telephone numbers, dates and places of
>birth,
> the final four digits of Social Security numbers and
>record of when
> people voted.
>
> Hancock said Friday that he did not intend to post the
>information,
> he simply wanted to prove that he could.
>
> Hancock said he wants the ability to make his voter
>information
> private and not for sale.
>
> "I don't want my information to go to the political elite,
>and I don't
> want a stalker to get information about my 19-year-old
>daughter
> because she voted," Hancock said.
>
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