On January 22, the Maryland Libertarian Party asked a U.S. District Court to prevent the state from printing up new registration cards that omit the Libertarian Party as a choice, at least until the main issue in the party’s lawsuit is settled. Johnston v Lamone, 1:18cv-3988. The party went off the ballot in November 2018 because it didn’t poll 1% for Governor. However, the party has over 20,000 registered members. The lawsuit argues that the ballot retention law, as applied to a party in its position, is unconstitutional. The state says the party needs a petition of 10,000 signatures in order to get back on the ballot, but the party argues that it is not rational for the state to require the party to submit 10,000 signatures, when it is obvious that there are more than 10,000 voters in Maryland who want the party on the ballot. Clearly if a party has over 20,000 registered members, any petition to show that 10,000 voters want the party on the ballot is redundant.
The situation with Ls is the same with every party, the party bosses bring the two-party and one-party system voting systems, and unity with the whole gets snuffed out cycle after cycle.
The LP bosses need to simply look in the mirror.
But they are trying to look at others as the source of their woes, but the real problem is their own methods to shut down unity at every turn, to snuff out women’s voices, unequal treatment and no free speech protections for others within the LP.
We need to do a better job to bring pure proportional representation in order to be part of government.
The LP grasps for it all (winner-takes-all) with big expectations, instead they end up with nothing and it was all wasted effort, because they cannot bring the right team message of PPR because of the hostile and demoralizing psychology that pluralism politucs bring to the table.
It’s simply the mathematics of the LP vote counting, in every election they control, not so much State’s work.
The LP is using plurality psychology in a two-party system, or course they cement the two parties, they don’t know any other way. Now with AppV in single-winner districts for POTUS the LP is bringing a one-party system/mathmatics/psycholigy.
The one-party system (like in City of SF elections) is worse than a two-party system and will set the LP back more years.
The SF LP is oblivious to the fact that SF uses a one-party system, RCV in single-winner districts.
What century before the genius leaders of any minor party get ANY lawyer who can detect that –
1. Separate is NOT equal. Brown v Bd of Ed 1954
2. Each election is NEW.
3. EQUAL ballot access tests ???
Too many M-O-R-O-N-S to count before and after SCOTUS Williams v Rhodes 1968.
Eliminate partisan nominations, and the state does not need to figure out which parties to grant nomination privelege to, nor maintain public records of the political beliefs of its citizens.
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Technically parties do not lose their status until January 1st under Maryland law. While the outcome of the election is already determined in November, due to the other method of retaining access being 1% voter registration as of the start of the new year a parties status is not checked until January 1st.