On Sunday, October 9, the Ohio Libertarian Party filed this Emergency Motion to Compel Complaince with Preliminary Injunction, and this brief in support. Although the party won injunctive relief on September 7, putting it on the 2012 ballot, the Secretary of State has not implemented the injunction. Especially worrying is the inability of persons who want to run in Ohio’s March 2012 Libertarian presidential primary to begin collecting signatures, since the Secretary of State has not prepared the petition forms. UPDATE: the Ohio Libertarian Party is not entitled to its own presidential primary. However, the party is worried about the need for its candidates to be circulating petitions to get themselves on the party’s primary ballot for office other than President.
If a political party has until 105 days before the primary to inform the SOS that they will be electing delegates to a national convention (3513.122) can the SOS start distributing forms earlier than that?
How about demanding $$$ DAMAGES for violations of constitutional and statutory rights from the EVIL robot party hacks in ALL of the rotted States ???
Bankrupt more and more of them — pending —
P.R. and App.V.
Is the Libertarian Party a major party? Aren’t presidential primaries in Ohio limited to major parties?
#3, you are right. I have amended the post. Thank you very much. Ohio election law says only parties that polled 20% of the vote in the previous election may have a presidential primary.