The Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE) is a very loose coalition of most of the nation’s active nationally-organized minor parties, along with other organizations that care about their election law problems. It was founded in 1985 in New York city. The Board meets in person once per year. It met on March 14, 2015, in New York city. Here are the tentative minutes. Thanks to Kevin Murphy, COFOE’s webmaster, for posting them.
Wouldn’t it have been cheaper for each member to be bought a Skype unit, arrange for them to have this type of meeting. I think you can have up to several people on the screen at one time.
Believe the individual units costs around $80 each. Rules would be, that person elected to serve sign certificate stating they are responsible for the Skype, and will affirm they will be responsible for paying for the unit if it is lost, or stolen, or they decide to no longer participate; Also a provision could be made for former member to mail his/her skype united back to Secretary of COFOE.
I would think this would save individual members thousands of dollars in air fair and lodging, when they could be sitting in the comfort of their home.
Just an idea, so that COFOE membership at each meeting might be better guaranteed.
The COFOE meeting was on Saturday evening, over dinner. During the day, Independent Voting (formerly known as Committee for a Unified Independent Party, and before that the New Alliance Party) had its big meeting, which it only does every two years. Most of the people who attended the COFOE board meeting also enjoyed seeing that event. Also most COFOE board members live in either New York or eastern Pennsylania, so no one had to pay for a hotel. I was lucky enough to stay with a friend, and Bill Redpath also stayed in someone’s home. Another reason the in-person meeting was a good idea is that on Sunday there was a well-attended memorial meeting for Gary Sinawski, who died last year and who won more constitutional ballot access cases than anyone.else in U.S. history. Bill and I attended that.
How many ballot access briefs have NOT said that —
1. Each election is NEW.
2. Separate is NOT equal. Brown v. Bd of Ed 1954
3. EQUAL ballot access tests for ALL candidates for the same office in the same area.
4. IE — ALL of the SCOTUS cases since 1968 are defective JUNK and must be OVER-ruled.
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