Thank you for joining the Libertarian Reform Caucus. We have made a great amount of progress over the past few months. Our website is almost finished. We now have over 180 members spread across 38 states! We need your help so we can continue to grow.

Promoting the Caucus

The founders and initial activists have contacted many people, but we cannot do it alone. We do not yet have a PAC/527 set up so we can raise money to advertise. To keep the momentum going, please spread the word!

Are you a member of a libertarian discussion group? Please let them know about us when the topic is appropriate.
Do you have a blog? An article about the caucus would be highly appreciated. So would a permanent link. There are logo images for this purpose at http://www.ReformTheLP.org/caucus/promote/link.php
How about an article about the caucus in your state party newsletter?
Is there a state convention coming up? Please consider setting up a table. Handouts are available at http://www.reformthelp.org//caucus/promote/table.php
How about other libertarian-friendly events? Remember that one doesn’t have to be a member of the LP to join the caucus.
We would like to have members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Currently, we do not have any members in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Washington DC or Wyoming. If you know people in those states who would be interested in joining, please tell them about us. Having members in all 50 states will be a valuable promotional tool and will establish our legitimacy as reflecting a serious contingent within the LP.

Volunteers Wanted

Do you instinctively reach for a red pen when reading? Does bad grammar set you off? Do you enjoy converting tangled bureaucratic sentences into something human-readable? Can you explain your corrections to an author without bruising an ego? If so, please volunteer to be on our editorial board. The essays and proposals are flooding in, and the volume will grow as the caucus grows. A large board of editors allows us to divide the work.

Do you have expertise in dealing with the Federal Election Commission? Do you know campaign finance law? Do you know how to establish a 527 or a PAC? Are you a lawyer or an accountant? If any of the above, we could certainly use advice and help in setting up the legal structure needed to accept donations and take the caucus up to the next level.

Do you have other skills that you think might be useful? Please write us!

About The Website

Thanks to our webmaster, our website is nearly complete:

The web site has a fully functioning database. Users can log in, edit their profile and change their passwords. If you have not logged in yet, please do so and create your own password. Please do not use a password that you use for secure sites, as we do not use a secure protocol for our system. Login at http://www.ReformTheLP.org/home/members/login.php, or click the “Login” link above the Statue of Liberty’s head in the upper left corner.
Once logged in, members can vote on all the platform proposals to date. This is the first round approval vote. Once we narrow the proposals down to those that have a high approval, then we can have some type of run-off voting system that takes account of members’ relative preferences.
Members can also rate the essays on a 1-5 scale. Highly rated essays will help define the LRC’s strategies and approach.
The entire Libertarian Party platform has been broken into planks for your voting pleasure. You can now go through the entire existing platform and determine which planks to keep, which to replace and which to simply remove.
We have received and posted many proposals to replace existing planks in the platform. If a proposal for a plank has been submitted and posted, you can read it and vote on it by clicking the link in the right sidebar.
We also have proposals to change (or eliminate) the LP Membership Pledge, as well as the Statement of Principles.
We have quite a few essays up: on strategy, marketing, party organization, natural rights theory, controversial issues and more.

Please log in and check it all out.

About Approval Voting

For each platform plank, there are at least two pages.

A page showing the current LP Platform plank.
A page labeled “Say Nothing” (or “Have No Plank” in the right sidebar).
Are further pages are proposals by caucus members.

You can vote for more than one proposal per plank. For each option, vote “yes” if you find the option acceptable or “no” if you find it unacceptable. If you don’t like any of the options for a plank, you might want to write one of your own.

Approval voting seeks to maximize consensus by displeasing the fewest vs. pleasing the strongest faction. When we have eliminated the unpopular options, we will set up a run-off system that will allow you to indicate which of the remaining options you approve of more than others. The winning planks will form a new platform which we can propose at the National Convention.