The Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE) will hold its annual board meeting on July 15, Sunday, in Baltimore, at the Inner Harbor Holiday Inn, 301 W. Lombard Street, at noon. The meeting will be in the Harbor 2 Room. The Green Party is kindly making this room available to COFOE. The national convention of the Green Party will meet on the day before, Saturday, July 14, to choose a presidential and vice-presidential nominee, in the Chesapeake Ballroom of the same hotel. Then, on Sunday morning, the national committee of the Green Party will meet at 9 a.m. in the Harbor 2 Room, but that meeting is expected to be finished by noon, making the space available for the COFOE meeting.
COFOE was formed in 1985, and is a loose coalition of most of the nation’s nationally-organized parties, other than the two major parties. Also included are organizations that are interested in the legal problems of political parties and independent candidates. The COFOE board currently includes representatives from the Conservative Party, the Constitution Party, the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, the Reform Party, the Socialist Party, the Working Families Party, Free & Equal, and the Committee for a Unified Independent Party.
Anyone is free to attend the board meeting.
I don’t mean to start something but why is Ogle not a participant?
Because nobody else would want to be if he was.
One more useless meeting.
Use the money saved to get —
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
ONE election day.
Equal nominating petitions.
Circa 18 States with voter petitions for state constitutional amendments.
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NO more useless losing court cases.
Mr. Winger you and COFOE are to be commended for the Great Work you do.
If the organization wants to be effective then it has to gain more funding and more donors. If it wants to do that, then it has to provide more value. If it wants to do that, it has to attract a network of contributors that can be organized coherently to drive real change. All else is an exercise in living in an echo chamber just to hear oneself speak (i.e. to too small effect). The fact that the organization was founded in 1985 and very few people in the mainstream even know what it is is proof enough.