New Mexico law provides for a government committee to decide which presidential primary candidates should appear automatically on presidential primary ballots. The law says they should pick candidates who are “generally advocated and nationally recognized as candidates”. The committee consists of the Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, the state chair of each party entitled to a primary, and if the party has legislators, the leaders of that party’s legislative delegation in each house. Candidates not chosen may still petition to get on the ballot, but the petition is very difficult.
On February 11, the committee made these choices for each of the three parties entitled to a primary: Democrats Michael Bennet, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Deval Patrick, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren, and Andrew Yang.
For the Republican ballot, the committee only chose President Donald Trump.
For the Libertarian ballot, the committee chose 13 names: Max Abramson, Sorinne Ardeleanu, Ken Armstrong, Dan Behrman, Lincoln Chafee, Jacob Hornberger, Jo Jorgensen, Adam Kokesh, John Monds, James Ogle, Sam Robb, Arvin Vohra, and Mark Whitney.
William Weld is represented by a New Mexico attorney, and Weld’s attorney has objected to the rejection of Weld’s name. Thanks to Rick Lass for this news.
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My opinion as one of 63 names vying is that the election managers failed to treat all 63 nominees for Prez and VP with FEC with equality.
Newcomers and non-monied candidates were put at a disadvantage by being expected to present our campaigns in three minutes. That was a maneuver which was destroying any chance of equal treatment, equal time and growth rather than downsizing.
The new plan is to bring 100% of all Presidential, Vice Presidential and Electors as one big bunch.
Five hundred thirty-eight consecutively ranked names as Electors with plenty of names as back-ups.
At the end of both the introductions of eleven(?) POTUS candidates on Saturday and the six “winners” of the approval votes on Saturday, both days saw the election managers distribute paper ballots which bring a one-party system under approval voting.
Unfortunately because these election managers don’t understand the mathematics of the two-party and one-party systems, they are naively bringing a destructive one-party system to the 2020 Libertarian Party.
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I had wondered who had been selected. All I found was a posted agenda on the Supreme Court web site.
I sent a message to the Supreme Court web site. I got four replies in quick order.
(1) An automated ack.
(2) A response that they did not have that information.
(3) A message that the inquiry had been closed.
(4) A message asking me to rate the interchange.
There is nothing on the SOS website except for an offer for an 8×10 glossy of Maggie Touloouse Oliver. It is signed “Maggie”, presumably so it won’t need to be updated when she runs for governor.
One more SOS HACK.
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