Expense of Elections
When the FSPer's first start out, we're going to be low on both cash and experience. We could always team up with the state Republican or Libertarian parties, as has been suggested, and this could have some advantages in saving us time, effort, and expense. However, any assistance these groups might render us will basically equate to a level of dependency that we will have on them. They could assist us � at a price. A price that could slow our agenda or end up compromising it completely depending upon the circumstances.

To succeed, we will undoubtedly want to join up with local, established political organizations, but we should also have an environment where we can sponsor worthy candidates outside of the establishment, if necessary. No matter what course we pursue though, we will still be engaging in primaries and run-offs; mailings; get-out-the-vote drives; television work, purchasing radio and newspaper ads, etc.  And all of these things cost money.

Our chances to successfully access the system in our candidate states will thus be largely dependent upon how much it costs to get a chance at access.

FSP Candidate States Ranked by Expense of Elections (Best to Worst):

1. North Dakota
2. Vermont
3. Wyoming
4. Alaska
5. Idaho
6. Delaware
7. Montana
8. Maine
9. South Dakota
10. New Hampshire
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