On August 22, the Illinois State Board of Elections certified the statewide Libertarian Party slate for the November ballot. The decision was not surprising, given that the “binder-check” process had found over 25,000 valid signatures, and that the Hearings Officer for that process had recommended that the petition be considered valid. The vote on the eight-member Board was 5-2.
This is the first time since 2004 that the Libertarian Party will be the only minor party on the Illinois ballot for statewide offices.
Glad to see that no matter what lengths some of the authorities were going to take, the LP survived those challenges. I do hope, however, that the courts will decided that separate (laws for people in different parties) is not equal.