On January 9, the Ohio Libertarian Party filed this brief in U.S. District Court in LP of Ohio v Tavares, s.d., 2:19cv-2501. This is the case in which the Libertarian Party challenges the law that says the State Election Commission will be composed of three Democrats, three Republicans, and a seventh member who must be an independent. The Libertarian Party is ballot-qualified in Ohio and yet cannot possibly have a member on the commission.

The brief also asks that once the constitutional issue is determined, that the court rule on whether it was wrong for the Commission to have set up gubernatorial debates in 2018 in which only the Democratic and Republican Party nominees were invited, and without even setting any objective standards for admission to the debate.