On June 21, the Ohio Libertarian Party filed its opening brief in the Sixth Circuit in Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted, 16-3537. The party lists these issues for the court to decide: (1) Whether the Ohio Republican Party engaged in state action within the meaning of U.S. 42 USC 1983 when it selectively enforced an Ohio law and sabotaged the Libertarian Party’s primary; (2) whether Ohio’s Chair of its Personnel Review Board engaged in state action when he selectively enforced an Ohio law and sabotaged LPO’s primary; (3) Whether the Secretary’s Chief Elections Officer engaged in an unlawful conspiracy to selectively remove LPO’s gubernatorial candidate from LPO’s 2014 primary; (4) whether Ohio’s Senate Bill 193 violates the Equal Protection Clause by providing only to some recognized political parties a mechanism for registering members; (5) whether Ohio waived its 11th amendment immunity by voluntarily intervening and actively defending SB 193.
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Edited By Richard Winger
How is their petition drive going?
How many ZILLION hours to collect the evidence of the obvious conspiracy and do the briefs ???
The HACKS in the States are obviously under COMMAND orders from the Devil City HACKS to wipe out all third parties and independents from the ballots.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
@Jim Riley: Ohio has put its party ballot access petition (35,000 valid signatures) on the back burner and is concentrating on getting Johnson/Weld on the ballot as independents (5,000 signatures). We are about halfway there now, and expect to have more than enough by the Aug. 10 filing deadline.
I am actively promoting Governors Johnson and Weld through social media and in person. While it is not many, I believe that I have convinced dozens of people to vote for Johnson (the majority of them coming from Trump). I believe that the opportunity to break the duopoly in Washington D.C. is here and we need to take full advantage of it. What is the status for getting Johnson/Weld into the polls? I have contacted Rasmussen and You.gov polls (which I understand are the last two holdouts) and gotten minimal responses that they will begin including them as well as the Commission on Presidential Debates to lower the threshold below the current 15% requirement. Is there anything being done on the legal front (i.e. lawsuits) to force these changes?