In 2024, as in 2012 and 2020, the Florida Secretary of State is not enforcing a 2011 law that says qualified minor parties can’t be on for President unless they are either recognized by the Federal Election Commission as a “national committee”, or unless they submit a petition of 1% of the registered voters (145,040 signatures).

This year the Secretary of State put the presidential nominees of the Socialism & Liberation Party, and the American Solidarity Party, on the ballot. Yet neither submitted a petition, and neither is recognized by the FEC as a “national committee.”

The Secretary of State did not enforce the law in 2012, because, he said, he couldn’t enforce it because he had no official knowledge of which parties are recognized by the FEC. Nor did he enforce it in 2020, when he let the Socialism & Liberation Party on. But he did enforce it in 2016, when the ballot-qualified Independent Party tried to nominate Evan McMullin.

Free & Equal will sponsor a presidential debate on Wednesday, October 23. Oliver Chase, Jill Stein, and Randall Terry will participate. The debate will be held in Hollywood, California, between 5 and 7 p.m. Pacific time.

On September 14, the Georgia Libertarian Party requested permission to amend its Complaint in Graham v Carr (also known as Graham v Attorney General of Georgia) so as to revive it. This is the case filed in 2022 against the Georgia law that allows individuals to contribute more to Republican and Democratic nominees for Governor or Lieutenant Governor, than to other candidates for the same offices.

The Eleventh Circuit had said the case is moot because the original Complaint lacked some verbiage about future campaigns beyond 2022, so if the Complaint can be amended, the case can be revived. The case number is 1:22cv-03613.