Libertarian Party May Have Record Number of Presidential Primaries in 2020

Never before has any party, other than the Republican and Democratic Parties, been entitled to presidential primaries in as many as ten states in any one year. But it is possible in 2020 the Libertarian Party might have presidential primaries in as many as 20 states, if it wants them.

It is very likely that the party will be entitled to its own presidential primary in 2020 in Arizona, California, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.

It is likely that it will have presidential primaries in the District of Columbia and Massachusetts. It all depends on whether the party gets as many as 7,500 votes in D.C. for any partisan district race, and whether it gets 3% for Massachusetts Auditor.

It is possible that the party will be entitled to presidential primaries in Arkansas, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, and Ohio, depending on how well the party does in the 2018 election. In Delaware, the variable has nothing to do with votes. Qualified parties are entitled to their own presidential primary in Delaware (even though they nominate by convention for other office). But no qualified third party in Delaware ever has a presidential primary because it is so difficult for candidates to get on the presidential primary of a small party. Generally they don’t have enough registered voters for a candidate to get 500 signatures of party members. Furthermore, at least two candidates must petition, for the state to hold a presidential primary.

Libertarian presidential primaries are never binding, but if the presidential nomination is hotly contested in 2020 (and it probably will be), the candidate who wins most of the presidential primaries will probably have a psychological edge.


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Libertarian Party May Have Record Number of Presidential Primaries in 2020 — 24 Comments

  1. Updates about how Clint Eastwood doesn’t want you to see the videos of the first debate in 1986 with Environmentalist Party candidate Tim Grady for mayor to be announced.

    In 1997 Google (then known as “backrub.com”) derived their name from our team in
    October of 1997 but their founder Sergie Brin doesn’t want you to know:
    http://usparliament.org/how-google-got-its-name.php

    Google, the California Green Party and the national Libertarian Party (LP) have
    viciously opposed the United Coalition. Despite the fact that the party
    bosses of the CA State Green Party and the national Libertarian Party
    censored our 2012 POTUS campaigns by bullying and de-linking the sites from the
    national sites, our POTUS candidate in 2012 James Ogle won the only primary (MO).

    A 52.7% victory while attaining the votes with the unifying
    message of PPR, yet we are denied speaking before the convention’s attendees by
    the rules, by those in charge.

    The Missourian Newspaper
    http://www.columbiamissourian.com/a/145021/libertarian-primary-choice-describes-himself-as-outsider-in-own-party/

    Independent Political Report
    http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2012/02/james-ogle-edges-uncommitted-to-win-missouri-libertarian-presidential-primary/

    Join the team that’s bringing the new unity phenomena of PPR
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  2. When will the Elephant controlled State regimes SMASH all minor parties and independents OFF the general election ballots ???

    — and get 5-4 SCOTUS approval – esp via the Trump robot nominee coming on Monday

    — in defense of the *two party tradition* nonsense.

  3. ALL the Prez primary stuff is more separate and unequal stuff in blatant violation of Brown v Bd of Ed 1954.

    Too many MORON lawyers and judges to count since 1954.

    NO primaries, caucuses and conventions with any public election connections.

    The party gangs can have private snail/email ballots for whatever.
    —–
    EQUAL nominating petitions / filing fees for public ballot access.

    PR and AppV

  4. Any New Age very high tech time machines —

    to go back in time and come back and report —

    about who did what and when and where ???

    See HG Wells book.

  5. I thought Libertarians were opposed to primaries because they didn’t want taxpayer dollars used for promoting political parties? In West Virginia, the Libertarian Party is qualified to participate in the May primaries, but declines in favor of a self-funded nominating convention. I guess that would be #21 if they wanted it.

  6. Jeff Becker In Oklahoma the Libertarian party would prefer to nominate by convention so that tax payer money is not used. But Oklahoma law prohibits parties from nominating by convention. Political parties must hold a Primary if there is more than one candidate for an office.

  7. Starting in 1980, in every presidential election, there have been Libertarian presidential primaries that were actually conducted around the nation.

  8. From my experiences with the LP party bosses since 1995 when Honourable Harry Browne [Libertarian] won the “First Internet Preference Ballot for US President”, the Libertarian Party is no where nearer to appealing to outsiders since 23 years ago.

    The more correct policy of protecting everyone’s liberty to self categories, protecting equal free speech time, policies of inclusion and pure proportional representation (PPR), is unattainable within their current structure.

    Not impossible but highly unlikely.

    The best opportunity for achieving such high goals is only available with the United Coalition USA. Fortunately I will be making overtures in my campaign for US President in 2020 to be announced within the week.

    http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc-p7.usa.html

  9. The original post in Usenet, likely group is alt.politics.elections, during October of 1997, there Sergey Brin joined my conversation and asked “What is a jingle? ”

    Google Groups business bought Dejanews and deleted his comments.

    If there is another copy of Usenet, the original question by Brin may exist, but he doesn’t want you to know that the google name derived from his question about my own name. I think he tried to be artistic and tried to copy the political controversy that we bring, but that is largely hypothetical.

    Why would google be interested in Harry Browne?

  10. So Google the bought the ENTIRE company, just to erase a few comments. Despite the fact that you had to have a paid subscription to have access to Usenet so it wouldn’t have even come up in a regular web search anyway. Please seek mental help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandiose_delusions

    If the “International Parliament” was real it would have political chapters in most states and be seeking ballot access. Otherwise it’s just a collection of sad lonely people screaming at the world from behind their keyboards.

  11. See the various folks in 1603-1689 talking and writing various things about the Brit regime — letters, pamphlets, resolves, etc. — in England/Britain >>> [English Revolution – Parliament supremacy].

    See the various folks in 1761-1783 talking and writing various things about the Brit regime — letters, pamphlets, resolves, etc. — in those low tech Brit colonies in eastern North America >>> [American Revolutionary War].

    See the various folks in 1776-1865 talking and writing various things about slavery — letters, pamphlets, resolves, party platforms, telegrams, etc. — in those higher tech northern States in the USA >>> [Civil War I – 13-14-15 Amdts]

    See the various folks in 1888-2018 talking and writing various things about Democracy and election reforms — letters, pamphlets, resolves, party platforms, internet postings (since late 1980s). etc. — in ALL States in the USA >>> [REAL Democracy or TOTAL tyranny ?????]

    PR and AppV — regardless of ALL folks ignorant about political history in the last 6,000 plus years

  12. What has Lyon accomplished for the 100%?

    The United Coalition has been counting votes correctly under pure proportional representation (PPR) and the continued effort in 2018 is videotaped live, all marked paper ballots as proof.

    Click here (https://youtu.be/DgXaC_Uzm6s) to see the Earth Day event video.

    Our team has been getting it done right despite the bullies who work to bring hostile and vile rhetoric, while the team brings marked stack of paper ballots as proven in video with the One, Green, Libertarian and Constitution Party elected leaders/voters in Earth Day video.

    Mark Herd [Libertarian] is on CA State Libertarian Party Executive, Grundman is Constitution Party State Chair, etc. and they all agreed to be elected to the United Coalition along with 125+ candidates on CA State ballot and 40-plus certified write-in candidates who participated in varying degrees in 2018.

    What does Mr. Lyon bring in his comments about teamwork on the film which contradict his message, which is that “the United Coalition doesn’t exist and never existed”?

    Our filings do in fact exist with Federal Elections Commission since our first federal campaign in 1993, CA CD 17.

  13. Clint Eastwood brought in Ronald Reagan’s campaign manager of 1984, Sue Hutchinson, to battle our team in Carmel for mayor in 1986.

    I attended her tea parties with Clint. They may not favor environmentalism themselves but the idea of tea parties, we all like them.

    The Boston Tea Party, one of many splinter groups that are sustained in our united coalition USA, we are using the information about the stack of paper ballots cast as proof on Earth Day for a clear message.

    The new peaceful alternative alternative to force and violence is sweeping the world and it’s PPR.

  14. 2020 candidates, CA-PAR President Tim Gildersleeve
    [Christocratic] for CA US Senate in 2016, 2018 and next cycle too, Member Greg Conlan [Republican] for CA State Treasurer in November 2018, Raul Rodregues [Republican] for CA SoS in 2018 and 2022 and many others on our team are currently vying or are to be vying for elective office.

  15. Why would one have to pay for a subscription to Usenet?

    Even if it was an innocent misspelling, once the mistake was discovered wouldn’t Brin want to make sure the word was unused? Maybe Anderson was making laugh of the Russian-born computer nerd.

    You’ve never heard someone say “I’d like to google her (or him)”? “Google those”, he exclaimed as he leered at the woman.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZZj97tqrMI

    Regardless whether Anderson was making a joke or a simple mistake, at some point the error would have been discovered, and some research into words like “google” would have been made. If a search turned up a word like “joogle” it would be natural to ask what a joogle was.

    At one time, it was controversial for DejaNews and later Google to be archiving Usenet. There was a header that could be used to suggest a post not be archived. Perhaps Brin had used that.

  16. Brin asked in the United Coalition conversation and one week later he announced the name change before the audience in my conversation.

    Bring reserved the name as the programmer/owner of a new site.

    Regarding Dejanews, I recall Dejanews was bought by Google Groups. But there must be archives that google didn’t buy which still has his question posed in the United Coalition conversation from October of 1997.

  17. Sergey Brim, asked “What is a joogle?” and one week later he announced google.com in our conversation where Harry Browne (Libertarian) was elected #1 of 125 names for POTUS.

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