John Fockler, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, has received at least 750 write-in votes in the March 6, 2012 Libertarian primary, and probably over 800. He needed 500 write-ins to qualify to be listed on the November ballot. The election night primary returns had shown him with only 407, but election night returns for write-in candidates are invariably not accurate.
His name wasn’t printed on the primary ballot because he would have needed a petition of 500 valid names, and people who had voted in a 2010 primary (other than the 2010 Libertarian primary) were not eligible to sign. Also, because the state changed the date of its primary from May to March at the very end of 2011, there wasn’t much time for candidates to collect signatures on primary petitions. Thanks to Kevin Knedler for this news.
The Green Party had the exact same requirements as the Libertarian Party in OH. I am the Green Party candidate for OH1 US Congress on the ballot in November 2012, and I had to get just 25 valid signatures to be on the Primary Ballot. Circulators could only be a Green Party candidate who did not necessarily have had to vote in the 2010 Green Party Primary, or be voters who voted in the Green Party primary in 2010. Anyone could give a valid signature who voted in the Green Party Primary in 2010 or be one of the over 70% of registered voters who did not vote in any party primary in 2010. These 70% non-affiliated are shown as “NON” on registered voters lists in every precinct in OH. In black and white. They can easily be identified to get valid signatures for Green or Libertarian Party candidate petition signatures by finding them on Precinct Walking Lists available for $1 from any County Board of Elections in OH. Most of those “NONs” are usually anxious to sign any petition to get another choice on the ballot in the General Election in November.
Kevin Knedler, we have met, and my good advice is to have Libertarian party members, get a Precinct Walking List, and harvest the bountiful valid signatures there for the taking. Anyone registered and shown on the list as “NON” is 100% sure to be a valid signature for your candidate 100% of the time. My fellow Green Party members need to learn the same lesson. (Some learned the lesson in Hamilton County in December 2011. We don’t know yet if our US Senate write-in candidate, Joe DeMare, had enough write-in votes to be on the ballot in November. If we do not have a candidate on the ballot, John Fockler can count on my vote on my Nov 06, 2012 ballot. Congratulations on getting John Fockler on the ballot. Keep up the good work. Walking lists are very productive in getting valid Minor party candidate signatures in OH.
With petition signature gathering in public, the valid results are very likely to be much lower, maybe 20% to 60%. Usually not much more than that. Rich Stevenson
1-513-251-3155. I was a speaker in a panel on The Future of the Two-Party System at the 2007 OH Libertarian Convention. A good experience.
Hon MSP Rich Stevenson [Green], good talking to you today on the phone, and thanks for the interest in the American Parliament. Your name will be self nominated and appointed to the Cincinnati Mini-state Parliament (ss7-1), the Great Lakes Super-state Parliament (ss7)
http://www.usparliament.org/ss7.php, the national Cabinet and the national Parliament’s ballot for one of the 1000 members.
I will be updating the web pages with links to your name and adding your name to the email list over the next few hours.
Hope you like it.
Best,
James Ogle [Free Parliamentary]
(415) 686-1996
Rich, thanks for the good word. We had walking lists, and several of our successful Congressional and state legislative candidates used them to good effect.
Please convey my best wishes to Joe. I’m sincerely hoping to see him on the ballot in November, on the stump, and hopefully in one or more debates with Sen. Brown and Treasurer Mandel.
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