A U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio, will hear the Libertarian Party’s ballot access case on July 14, at 10 a.m. The issue is whether the party is a qualified party. The hearing will be before Judge Edmund Sargus.
The party submitted a petition on March 3, 2008, to qualify itself as a party. It had 6,500 signatures on it. The Secretary of State’s office had ruled last year that, since Ohio has no valid law on how a new party gets on the ballot, she would administratively require 20,114 signatures, due in late November 2007. The Libertarian Party argues that (1) it has a modicum of voter support, as shown by its petition and also by being qualified now in 30 other states; (2) the Secretary of State did not have authority to create a new procedure, in the absense of any legislative grant of authority to her to do that; (3) her procedure, in any event, is still unconstitutional, because of the extraordinarily early deadline. No other state has a mandatory procedure for a new party to get on the ballot that is as early as November of the year before the election.
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July 2nd for Bob Barr organized by Ron Paul supporters. Please email, blogg and post everywhere. We need money now to get on ballots. It looks like we will be going to court in several states over substitutions, others on restrictive ballot access laws, and the more the Republicans feel the heat the more and more our petitions will be challenged much like the Deomcrats did to Nader in 2004. Please donate today as a sign of support to http://www.bobbarr2008.com We still need help to collect in West Virginia and Oklahoma. I am asking, pleading, and urging you to donate as much as you can. Tomorrow is pay day for many of us. Let’s make this sacrifice for the good fight, for Liberty . Let Freedom Grow
I hope the Libertarians win their suit. We have several parties on the ballot in my state and the world has not come to an end. Democrats and Republicans should allow more third parties as it only helps them. If you have ten parties on the ballot people ignore them as the vote is split. When you have three parties on the ballot because of restrictive votes that party becomes a potential threat to the GOP and DEMs
This is why politics depress me and cause my morale to tank…