The Libertarian Party allocation of delegates by state, at the national convention, is determined in part by the number of dues-paying members in each state. Accordingly the National Party Secretary recently distributed a draft delegate allocation count, so that the numbers could be checked by state parties. We are advised that there are discrepancies between national and state — such disagreements are not unexpected. There is a reconciliation process. National sends their list of names of members in each state to the corresponding state party, to be compared with the state party’s list of names. However, we are advised that people entitled to receive those lists, such as state chairs, have requested to receive their list of names, and the response from the LNC has been silence.
As an aside, the delegate count showed 12674 members as of 10/31/2023. This count does not include the modest number of members who do not live within the United States
At least some of the ones outside USA may be US Citizens with a US State back there but living and working abroad. I would think they would be eligible for their US State’s delegation , although less likely they’d actually want to.
There used to be “memberships” which were in reality journalists, archives etc not libertarian keeping tabs by subscribing to LP News. Not sure if that’s still a thing as my understanding is lp news is now kaput. If not entirely so, and iirc it actually completely is, then virtually so – not near as useful as 20 or 30 years ago for anyone who found it useful then, and even further downhill from Karl Hess version.
Membership rates over the last few years, as internally reported last year (2022), are available at https://groups.google.com/a/lp.org/g/lnc-business/c/gUbcaHYs1HM
The trend isn’t good. 12,674 compares poorly with the 15,711 members active members the last December-of-the-year-before-a-presidential-election.