Alabama Libertarian Party Petition for Special Legislative Election

Posted on by September 3, 2019

Alabama holds a special election on November 12, 2019, for State House district 42. The Libertarian Party submitted a petition to be included in this race. It needed 448 valid signatures. The party submitted 668 signatures. The Secretary of State then said the petition only has 429 valid signatures, so it is 19 short. However the party has been re-validating the petition, and has already found six more valid signatures that had erroneously been marked “invalid”. The party is only one-fifth of the way through the revalidation process, and is optimistic that it will find enough signatures to make the petition valid.

The Republican nominee is Van Smith; the Democratic nominee is Kenneth Allison; the Libertarian nominee is Doug Ward.

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Alabama Libertarian Party Petition for Special Legislative Election — 52 Comments

  3. Geez Louise! Just what does your babble have to do with the Libertarian Party in Alabama?????????

  4. Sorry – Election CRISIS stuff outside the USA may/will/does affect the USA –

    ie who is more powerMAD N-U-T-S – UK Boris or USA Donald ???

    BAN can not post New Age Election CRISIS stuff fast enough.

  5. Something like this happened in Alabama a few years ago, where the Libertarian Party of Alabama turned in petition signatures to be qualified in a county, I think it was Jefferson, which is where Birmingham is located, and which is the most populous county in the state, and the election officials claimed that they were short on signatures due to the number they declared to be invalid. Some members of LP then did their own validity check off the Alabama SOS website where people can check their voter registration status, and they came up with a higher validity rate than what the election officials told them, and was more than high enough for them to be ballot qualified in that county. The election officials refused to put them on the balot anyway, and they never refuted the LP of AL’s validity check, as in they never proved that it was wrong. The LP of AL could have sued over this, but they never did. I think this happened in 2016.

  6. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2019/09/02/deal-intense-brexit-debate-expected-uk-parliament/40063611/

    No-deal? Intense Brexit debate expected in UK Parliament
    —
    Quite possible suspension of HC Rules and CRISIS with H Lords [very long coming – for centuries].

    UK Republic forces on alert — with a WRITTEN Const. ???
    —
    Sorry – no video tapes of UK CRISIS in early 1782 when news of USA-France Victory on 19 Oct 1781 got to the killers/enslavers in the UK regime – ie the killer KG III and his top stooges/hacks.

  8. The Libertarian is Doug Ward

    Laura Chancey Lane shared a link.
    Admin · 2 hrs

    Doug Ward’s campaign needs $300 in order to get the most up-to-date voter list from the Secretary of State’s office in order to challenge their certification that he is 19 signatures short. Just 19 valid signatures need to be found in order for him to be on the ballot for the special election. If 12 people will donate $25 each, that shouldn’t be a hardship for anyone. PLEASE donate!!

    https://dougward4staterep.nationbuilder.com/donate

  9. This race is actually winnable.

    The Republicans nominated a candidate who is from Autauga County which makes up a small portion of the district. Most of the district is in Chilton County and the rest of the vote was split among three Chilton County Republicans. The bigger story was the turnout which was barely double digits. Bear in mind the Republican primary is the “real election” in a district which went something like 80-20 for Trump and did not even have a Democrat at all in the last regular election. It does in the special election, but he is a token candidate who is not well known at all. It’s unlikely the Democrats and Republicans together can muster a double digit turnout in November in an odd year election (3,000 voters). We can reach more people than that door to door.

  12. A few days after that came out the bridge toll proposal was pronounced “dead” and, some of us think not coincidentally, this was immediately followed by the Governor being shamed with a decades long blackface incident, after she replaced another Republican governor who resigned in disgrace over an office affair and financial improprieties.

    As Doug Snow explains “Alabama seems to have plenty of disposable governors. I am convinced that Robert Bentley was deliberately targeted for removal by his own party.Was Bentley a bad guy? Well, campaign finance violations in a corrupt state like Alabama is pretty humorous to say the least. As far as politicians having affairs with advisers and secretaries, I find that almost as laughable as accusing them of financial wrong doings.

    No, I believe Bentley was deliberately ousted by his own party for abigger reason. Bentley was in the way of something big, I honestly don’t think Bentley was even supposed to win the election, just the fact that Kay Ivey bowed out of the Gubernatorial race and switched over to the lieutenant Governor’s race tells me that the whole thing was a setup from the get-go.

    Now we have this mysterious video pop up out of nowhere with Kay Ivey telling us about playing a black face character in a skit back in the1960’s. It’s pretty obvious someone was sitting on this audio track with plans on using it at just the right time. With close to 55,000 people in the block the toll group, along with God knows how many other south Alabamians adamantly against Kay Ivey, it’s hard for me to believe that this YouTube video was just lingering out there waiting for somebody to just stumble accross it. With all the research that I’ve done, plus the research of countless others, this video would have been found a long time ago.

    I believe somebody out there has it in for ole Kay. I get a gut feeling that this damning video was deliberately released to distract us from the real players in this toll and port story. I’m pretty sure that they are counting on us to scream for her impeachment. Like I said in my previous story, Kay Ivey is the Kamikaze governor. I honestly believe she was set up from the get go, to go down in flames. Now that the toll project is by her own words “dead”, she has outlived her usefulness. She has got to go.

    This kind of thing has got to stop. We need to seriously look into all the political activities and players that have led us to this point in Alabama history. Our elected governors or not pawns to sacrifice as scapegoats. I know damn well Kay Ivey is not the mastermind behind all this. Whoever is pulling her strings, has an agenda. This toll group threw a big wrench into thier gears.

    Is this bridge deal dead? Not by a long shot. They are in way too deep to just walk away from it. Rest assure, they are back at the drawing board planning thier next move. I fear they will use this Kay controversy to distract us from thier activities. They are banking on this group to fade away now that the bridge project has failed. That’s were we come in once again to save ourselves. It is imperative we keep this group together. In fact, we need to keep it growing. We need to give Dean Young and his group all the support they need to permanently stop this nightmare from happening again. Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend…”

  13. Chilton County has its own slew of similar local corruption which is why none of the three Chilton Republicans running for this vacancy could manage any decent level of turnout as they are all complicit and pretty much everyone in Chilton knows it.

  14. I found 5 voters they missed in the first 100 sigs out of 668 and that’s *without* the updated list. The one we have is about 2 years out of date.

  15. As far as I have been able to determine this is the first special election for the LP of Alabama EVER in any race. That’s especially important since we are one of only 8 states left with a straight ticket, which is a lot less of an issue in a special election.

  16. Since the last time we had state ballot access in 2002 we have only been able to participate in 3 state legislative races – one in 2006, two in 2018. One of the two in 2018 Elijah Boyd was only on the ballot after a signature review like the one we are doing now.

  17. If Doug wins it’s the first LP state legislative win outright in a non-fusion, non switch in office election since the 90s and the biggest state/district ever (the others were in Alaska, NH and VT)

  20. AL regime – retard throwback to pre-history monarch/oligarch regimes ???

    — IE – AL folks with brains got killed off in 1861-1865 — leaving total evil retards

    for generations of statist ROT ???

    —
    ALL regimes –

    PR – legis
    and NONPARTISAN AppV – exec/judic
    and TOTSOP

  21. Also-

    NO special elections.

    Legis candidate/incumbent replacement lists.

    ALL legis bodies must be 100 pct full 24/7 to deal with more and more crisis stuff.

  22. “Laura Chancey Lane shared a link.
    Admin · 2 hrs

    Doug Ward’s campaign needs $300 in order to get the most up-to-date voter list from the Secretary of State’s office in order to challenge their certification that he is 19 signatures short. Just 19 valid signatures need to be found in order for him to be on the ballot for the special election. If 12 people will donate $25 each, that shouldn’t be a hardship for anyone. PLEASE donate!!

    https://dougward4staterep.nationbuilder.com/donate ”

    Hopefully you will raise enough money today if you haven’t already.

  23. Thank you Richard Winger for the article and for correcting the district and DnR opponents info. Please share as widely as possible.

  24. This sounds lime a good opportunity to get a Libertarian elected to a seat in a state legislature. This would be a huge accomplishment for the LP. If this guy makes the ballot, LP National should send and refer donations his was, and the LP of AL should put a real effort into winning this race.

  25. Went ahead and spent the 326.28 which was a ripoff and I would definitely appreciate any and all continuing donations to set that off. 300 was an estimate. We got 75.00 in donations so far with another 25.00 promised. As of this time that still leaves me on the hook for 226.28 so much appreciated if you all can help me out with that.

    It was an even worse ripoff than i expected since the file they sent no longer includes the most important data we need, date of birth, instead giving us voter age but not the month and day.

  31. As to the lawsuit about the voter list, the next thing that will happen is that the Secretary of State will indicate whether he really wants a trial, or whether he is now willing to revise his policy and let unqualified parties that are petitioning be treated the same as qualified parties.

  33. TOTAL CHAOS IN UK HOUSE OF COMMONS — ATTEMPT TO STOP BREXIT

    https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-09-03/debates/C4B0BE00-2E57-4FA4-8958-CD6F37711635/EuropeanUnion(Withdrawal)

    SEE BOTTOM FOR THE MACHINATION – STANDING ORDER —

    DE FACTO SUSPENSION OF RULES OF HOUSE OF COMMONS FOR ONE BILL – TO STOP BREXIT.

    328-301 MAJOR REGIME DEFEAT.

    ANOTHER CIVIL WAR IN NOT SO JOLLY OLDE ENGLAND ??? STAY TUNED.

    UK HC – ABOUT 20 PCT MINORITY RULE DUE TO GIANT GERRYMANDER OF ENTIRE REGIME – DUE TO MULTIPLE LARGER PARTIES IN MOST GERRYMANDER AREAS – 650 TOTAL.

    —
    PR IN ALL REGIMES.

  35. Here’s the latest version. Could use tightening up on the writing, Suggestions welcome.

    May take following the included links to get an idea of what I am trying to convey, Thanks to everyone who donated or will.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    http://ballot-access.org/2019/09/02/alabama-libertarian-party-petition-for-special-legislative-election/

    Alabama holds a special election on November 12, 2019, for State House district 42. The Libertarian Party submitted a petition to be included in this race. It needed 448 valid signatures. The party submitted 668 signatures. The Secretary of State then said the petition only has 429 valid signatures, so it is 19 short. However the party has been re-validating the petition, and has already found six more valid signatures that had erroneously been marked “invalid”. The party is only one-fifth of the way through the revalidation process, and is optimistic that it will find enough signatures to make the petition valid.

    The Republican nominee is Van Smith; the Democratic nominee is Kenneth Allison; the Libertarian nominee is Doug Ward.

    comments:

    https://dougward4staterep.nationbuilder.com/donate

    This race is actually winnable.

    The Republicans nominated a candidate who is from Autauga County which makes up a small portion of the district. Most of the district is in Chilton County and the rest of the vote was split among three Chilton County Republicans. The bigger story was the turnout which was barely double digits. Bear in mind the Republican primary is the “real election” in a district which went something like 80-20 for Trump and did not even have a Democrat at all in the last regular election. It does in the special election, but he is a token candidate who is not well known at all. It’s unlikely the Democrats and Republicans together can muster a double digit turnout in November in an odd year election (3,000 voters). We can reach more people than that door to door.

    Alabama Republicans are not very happy with their party right now and they hate and fear Democrats. First they got sideswiped by their own party with a massive fuel tax and vehicle registration hike boondoggle.

    https://lpalabama.org/2019/05/27/iveys-raip-plan-should-be-spelled-rape/

    The the ALGOP powers that be crapped the bed with the Mobile bridge toll proposal …

    https://lpalabama.org/2019/08/25/for-whom-the-bridge-tolls-an-expose-of-big-government-run-amok/

    A few days after that came out the bridge toll proposal was pronounced “dead” and, some of us think not coincidentally, this was immediately followed by the Governor being shamed with a decades long blackface incident, after she replaced another Republican governor who resigned in disgrace over an office affair and financial improprieties.

    As Doug Snow explains

    “Alabama seems to have plenty of disposable governors. I am convinced that Robert Bentley was deliberately targeted for removal by his own party.Was Bentley a bad guy? Well, campaign finance violations in a corrupt state like Alabama is pretty humorous to say the least. As far as politicians having affairs with advisers and secretaries, I find that almost as laughable as accusing them of financial wrong doings.

    No, I believe Bentley was deliberately ousted by his own party for abigger reason. Bentley was in the way of something big, I honestly don’t think Bentley was even supposed to win the election, just the fact that Kay Ivey bowed out of the Gubernatorial race and switched over to the lieutenant Governor’s race tells me that the whole thing was a setup from the get-go.

    Now we have this mysterious video pop up out of nowhere with Kay Ivey telling us about playing a black face character in a skit back in the1960’s. It’s pretty obvious someone was sitting on this audio track with plans on using it at just the right time. With close to 55,000 people in the block the toll group, along with God knows how many other south Alabamians adamantly against Kay Ivey, it’s hard for me to believe that this YouTube video was just lingering out there waiting for somebody to just stumble accross it. With all the research that I’ve done, plus the research of countless others, this video would have been found a long time ago.

    I believe somebody out there has it in for ole Kay. I get a gut feeling that this damning video was deliberately released to distract us from the real players in this toll and port story. I’m pretty sure that they are counting on us to scream for her impeachment. Like I said in my previous story, Kay Ivey is the Kamikaze governor. I honestly believe she was set up from the get go, to go down in flames. Now that the toll project is by her own words “dead”, she has outlived her usefulness. She has got to go.

    This kind of thing has got to stop. We need to seriously look into all the political activities and players that have led us to this point in Alabama history. Our elected governors or not pawns to sacrifice as scapegoats. I know damn well Kay Ivey is not the mastermind behind all this. Whoever is pulling her strings, has an agenda. This toll group threw a big wrench into thier gears.

    Is this bridge deal dead? Not by a long shot. They are in way too deep to just walk away from it. Rest assure, they are back at the drawing board planning thier next move. I fear they will use this Kay controversy to distract us from thier activities. They are banking on this group to fade away now that the bridge project has failed. That’s were we come in once again to save ourselves. It is imperative we keep this group together. In fact, we need to keep it growing. We need to give Dean Young and his group all the support they need to permanently stop this nightmare from happening again. Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend…”

    Chilton County has its own slew of similar local corruption which is why none of the three Chilton Republicans running for this vacancy could manage any decent level of turnout as they are all complicit and pretty much everyone in Chilton knows it.

    I found 5 voters they missed in the first 100 sigs out of 668 and that’s *without* the updated list. The one we have is about 2 years out of date.

    As far as I have been able to determine this is the first special election for the LP of Alabama EVER in any race. That’s especially important since we are one of only 8 states left with a straight ticket, which is a lot less of an issue in a special election.

    Since the last time we had state ballot access in 2002 we have only been able to participate in 3 state legislative races – one in 2006, two in 2018. One of the two in 2018 Elijah Boyd was only on the ballot after a signature review like the one we are doing now.

    If Doug wins it’s the first LP state legislative win outright in a non-fusion, non switch in office election since the 90s and the biggest state/district ever (the others were in Alaska, NH and VT)

    https://www.facebook.com/Doug-Ward-For-Alabama-House-of-Representatives-District-42-341278496554343/

    update: Went ahead and spent the 326.28 (300 was an estimate) and we are receiving offsetting contributions (much appreciated everyone).

    It was an even worse ripoff than I expected since the file they sent no longer includes the most important data we need, date of birth, instead giving us voter age but not the month and day. We have months and days on the petition but now we have to sit there and calculate years from ages on top of everything else. Pretty annoying.

    Anyway the good news is that we have a campaign that could be winnable so please keep those donations coming at

    https://dougward4staterep.nationbuilder.com/donate

    Thanks to everyone who has already donated and those who will donate going forward!

  37. AND… the good people in Alabama are on the edge of their seats worrying about Brexit! Geez, Demo Rep.

  39. Who cares???????????????????? This article IS NOT ABOUT THE UK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  40. Well they both have some cities with the same names, like Birmingham and Leeds.

    Also, Alabama is corrupt as hell. I haven’t been to the UK but I’m sure it is too.

  44. Can’t get a hold of Boris. Natasha said you should donate to Doug. I don’t think we need to wait for Boris. Goodenuff?

  46. $281.28 has been raised via the website since this was posted so at this point my personal contribution is down to a much more manageable level. Thanks to everyone who has donated, and please keep them coming as the campaign does have other needs as well.

  48. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49612757

    Could a no-deal Brexit still happen on 31 October?
    —
    Delay Brexit bill passed H Lords.

    Majority will of the voters subverted more —

    by the ANTI-Democracy HACKS in the UK regime

    — more ROT in rotted to the core *parliamentary* *system*.

    Little wonder that *parliamentary* regimes rot to death — See France 1940

    France Third Republic hacks destroyed the regime [1875-1940] after Hitler defeat of France – Petain dictatorship created 1940-1944 — Vichy puppet regime –

    Doomed via Allies in 1944. Later 4th Republic 1946-1958. Now 5th republic – 1958-now
    ALL rotted all the time.

    Europeans with nonstop STATISM infection in their MORON brains — regardless of ALL the death and destruction – esp Napoleon, Kaiser Bill, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, etc.

    Same STATISM rot into USA in 1861-1865, 1917-1918 and esp since Oct 1929 – Great Depression I.
    —
    PR and AppV and TOTSOP

  49. AND THE STATE LEGISLATURE IN ALABAMA IS ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS AWAITING THE NEXT MOVE IN THE ONGOING SAGA OF BREXIT AND DEMO REPS ONGOING PROBLEM WITH ENEMA INFUSION AND CAPS LOCK ISSUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  50. “Any other updates?”

    We have now received an updated voter list from SOS with dates of birth, which they initially ommitted when I paid the $300 plus extortion fee.

  52. PM Johnson failed to get enough votes in HC to have special general election in Oct 2019.
    ———

    https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-09-09/debates/C555956D-61A5-46D7-9ACB-E5FE1479C441/Prorogation

    09 September 2019
    Mr Speaker

    The Commission was also for proroguing this present Parliament, and the Lord President said:

    “My Lords and Members of the House of Commons:

    By virtue of Her Majesty’s Commission which has now been read, we do, in Her Majesty’s name, and in obedience to Her Majesty’s Commands, prorogue this Parliament to Monday the fourteenth day of this October to be then here holden, and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Monday the fourteenth day of October.”

    End of the First Session (opened on 13 June 2017) of the Fifty-Seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the Sixty-Eighth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.
    ———–
    1066 DARK AGE regime — with NO written constitution

    end of UK Parliament session — to 14 Oct 2019

    Expect TOTAL revolt with new session. Possible written const. ???

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