The Virginia State Board of Elections has posted the official election returns for November 2, 2021, for the three statewide executive positions and House of Delegates. See here.
For Governor, the percentages are: Republican 50.57%, Democratic 48.64%; Liberation .70%; miscellaneous write-ins .08%.
Easiest ballot access requirement for minor party and independent candidates in Virginia in decades, and the Libertarian Party of Virginia did not even try to run a candidate. PATHETIC.
Virginia ballot access was even easier before 1970. Only 250 signatures were needed for non-presidential statewide office between 1936 and 1970.
Good to know the LNC is on top of this, oh wait they are too busy being corrupt.
Yep. They have screwed up other stuff this year as well.
The requirement to get on the ballot in Virginia this year was only 2,500 valid petition signatures, and they could have started collecting them in early January, and they had until early or mid June to submit them. This should have been a piece of cake for the Libertarian Party.
VA GERRYMANDERS SINCE 1618 – 403 YEARS.
LIKELY RECOUNTS IN 2-5 GERRYMANDER DISTS FOR H DELS [STATE REPS].
@Fred…. Sorry, but what does the LNC have to do with state races? It’s not nationals problem to get a state party on the ballot. This was LPVA’s failure, nobody else’s.
NATL LP HAS SPENT $$$ ZILLIONS IN BALLOT ACCESS STUFF IN SUPPORT OF STATE LPS.
ESP BIG $$$ FOR SAME OLDE LOSING LAWYERS IN LP STATE BALLOT ACCESS CASES SINCE 1971.
It hasn’t spent “zillions.” The lnc budget is published public information. Even the internal debates of the committee are published public information. The lnc annual budget is about the same or somewhat less than that of a single location of a typical McDonald’s franchise. Try managing that, but with a whole committee of frequently revolving elected volunteers of varying levels of expertise, imagined expertise, time commitment, interest level, expectations, etc, exercising various levels of oversight. Can you say cluster….?
As bad as that sounds, and it’s even worse than it sounds, it’s relatively well organized and well funded compared to other US third parties or to the LPs own state and local parties.
As for the LP budget, again no secret, most of it is not spent on either ballot access drives or ballot access litigation. It’s not hard to find what proportions are spent on what.
Most of the money LNC/HQ Spends on ballot drives, and to a lesser extent litigation, are for presidential ticket ballot access. Sometimes, it helps some state parties with non president year ballot access. It’s selective about which state parties it helps and to what extent. But generally speaking the trend has been away from helping state parties that don’t do much to help themselves in this regard. Virginia in this case being an example.
As for Demo Rep’s suggestion that LNC could spend money on better attorneys, who are THEY and what’s their track record? Demo Rep could just jump back in the court room and show all the “olde losing” lawyers how it should be done. But then again, word has it that back when he did file his own ballot access lawsuits, his win record wasn’t exactly stellar.
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HOW MUCH $$$ HAS THE NATIONAL LP SPENT ON STATE BALLOT ACCESS PETITIONS AND COURT CASES SINCE 1971 ???
Ballot access UNEQUAL ROT in Williams v Rhodes 1968 in SCOTUS – just before the LP got going.
Super-worse ballot access ROT in Jenness v Fortson 1971.
What genius LP lawyer(s) have DEMANDED that Williams and Jenness be OVER-ruled ???
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Last hope – 18 States with voter pets for state const amdts.
How much? If you want to know, go through the records, or whichever ones you can find, add it up, adjust for inflation, etc. The answer remains in the tens or hundreds of thousands per year (less in the beginning).
Most of it is related to presidential ticket ballot access one way or another, including through retention, and/or going to states which do a big chunk themselves but still need the help.
Over the years through repeated lawsuits, lobbying and ballot drives plus candidates hitting retention thresholds, fewer and fewer states both need or ask for national ballot access help, especially in non presidential years, and fewer other states or their representatives want to keep helping the shrinking pile of states that still need help.
Demo Rep keeps implying that this money is all wasted because better lawyers would get different results and get all ballot access restrictions thrown out. Unfortunately, he hasn’t identified any such lawyers, much less shown that they have a better track record of success than the ones the party did hire (or more frequently sign on to an existing lawsuit).
All sorts of different legal arguments have been tried in many years and places by many different lawyers. Results vary, but there’s been some progress along with some backsliding. It’s a constant battle on multiple fronts.
Demo Rep offers a nebulous quick fix with zero evidence that his arguments would win in court. The only real world evidence, second hand , is that his cases reportedly did not have a good track record back when he used to bring them. If he thinks he can do better now, what’s stopping him?
Demo Rep doesn’t act like someone who actually wants anyone to hire him and test his theory out. Maybe he doesn’t need the money, or maybe he has turned into such a cantankerous crank that no one would hire him. Maybe both.