On the evening of August 22, the Ohio Libertarian Party asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put Gary Johnson and Bill Weld on the ballot as Libertarians, rather than putting them on the ballot with no label whatsoever. Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted. There is no U.S. Supreme Court number yet.
The party’s filing says, “Assuming Johnson/Weld were to be certified as an independent ticket and survive official protests, it (unlike the established parties’ presidential tickets) will still not represent LPO as a political party, will not be listed as the ‘Libertarian’ ticket on Ohio’s ballot, and cannot meet Ohio’s 3% vote test on behalf of LPO in order to win for it qualified party status in Ohio in future elections.”
Ohio still hasn’t finished checking Johnson’s independent petition. The party filed this appeal on August 22 because the Sixth Circuit had again denied any relief that same day.
What lawyer has ANY brain cells to inform the SCOTUS election law genius folks that —-
1. Every election is NEW — regardless of ALL of the JUNK stuff since official ballots in 1888-1890.
2. Separate is NOT equal. Brown v. Bd of Ed 1954 — i.e. ALL public stuff — schools, elections, etc.
3. EQUAL ballot access tests for ALL candidates for the SAME office in the SAME area.
This is NOT atomic physics stuff.
I thought that the process in Ohio was for the county election offices to check the validity of the signatures and to report back to the SOS office. I also thought that they were given until last Friday to report back. Any idea what the delay is?
I suppose it takes time to add up the totals from each county.
Richard, would you mind if you posted who has currently qualified in each state so everyone knows who has qualified and who didn’t?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/BallotAccess/comments/4niwv6/ballot_access_scoreboard/
Paul, thanks for the table but I was looking for all minor parties not just the main three.
I’ve been trying to keep up with it here:
https://medium.com/@Chris_Powell/who-is-on-the-presidential-ballot-where-5d0d084dc498#.wddtxksmo
Nice job Chris. I see a few mistakes but you also had some stuff I had wrong on my Ballot Access Scorecard as well. Between us I think we are pretty close to the truth.
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Thanks for the table Chris.
It’s flat-out difficult to keep track of who is on where.
Rock, I like that you’ve got yours arranged by petition deadline date. I would suggest you plug BAN, supporting what Richard does is so important(note to self: send Winger some money).