On June 25, the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission voted to keep Tom Alciere on the Libertarian primary ballot for U.S. House, 2nd district. He is a registered Libertarian and he paid the filing fee. However, some party officers filed a challenge to his ballot placement on the grounds that he is not a bona fide member of the party. In some states, such as Alabama, Tennessee, and Missouri, candidates may be kept off primary ballots if the party determines that the candidate is not a bona fide member. New Hampshire election law does not recognize the ability of party leaders to exert veto power over candidates.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Did they state their reasons why he’s not a “bona fide” member? Hopefully this isn’t another Augustus Invictus fiasco.
Very *libertarian* for the NH regime NOT to permit the NH LP gangsters any power over *bona fide* stuff.
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PR and AppV
If the LP wants to play in the big leagues they have to make allowances for people using their ballot line for nefarious purposes. Think William Weld for president here. This is nothing contrasted with that abomination!
The Libertarian Party had formally revoked his party membership in 1994 for refusal to take the Libertarian oath to not initiate physical force for political purposes, and had his dues returned. Presumably, his decision not to take the oath was actively made – No I’m not going to take the oath”
He was elected to the New Hampshire House in 2000 as a Republican, and resigned in 2001 when his repeated exhortations to shoot policemen became known. He later filed as the sole Republican for a senate seat. Alarmed, a Republican ran as a write-in candidate for the nomination and defeated him.
In 2018 he sought the Republican nomination for Congress and finished badly. There is another candidate for the 2018 Libertarian nomination. There are only 209 registered Libertarian voters as of April, but unenrolled voters may select a party ballot.
Most LP folks got OUT of the communist/statist New England States LONG ago.
A few die-hards in Vermont.
Also again —
NO primaries.
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PR and AppV
The top priority in all elections and in all states is equal treatment, the liberty to self categorise and equal treatment to all voters and candidates under the unifying voting system of pure proportional representation (PPR).
The United Coalition has been doing it right now since 1995 and PPR works fine.
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
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The Unity Platform
“Non-Aggression Principle (NAP)”
“Term Limits”
It seems to me that a party ought to have a veto over who runs as their candidates, if party autonomy makes any sense.
Parties are agents of the state so long as the state conducts nomination contests.
As far as the state is concerned, the Libertarian Party is the voters registered with the party.
The complaint is at
http://sos.nh.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=8589977949 and the decision is at http://sos.nh.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=8589977946 and both link to .PDF files. The Libertarian Party does not like me because I support liberty and think logically. All real libertarians agree that DURING a drug raid, the innocent drug dealer is justified in using deadly force to resist the intruders; but the official Libertarian Party line is, you’re supposed to wait until the drug raid, and then it’s too late because you wake up with a sub-machine gun in the face and they already threw the flash grenade into your toddler’s playpen.