Marc J. Victor has qualified to appear on the Arizona Libertarian primary ballot of August 2, 2022. He is the first Libertarian to qualify for the Libertarian primary ballot in Arizona, for any federal or state office, since the legislature made primary ballot access for small established parties very difficult. That change was made in 2015.
Other Libertarians this year have filed as write-ins in the primary, but the 2015 law makes it extremely difficult for established minor parties to nominate by write-in in their own primary.
Qualified minor parties that have not been on the ballot for very long are permitted to nominate by write-in in their own primaries, with only a single write-in vote. Thus the Green Party had nominees on the Arizona ballot in 2016 and 2018. But in 2020 and this year, the Green Party is not ballot-qualified.
How many petition signatures did he have to get to qualify?
3,715, but the only voters who could sign were registered Libertarians and persons not members of any qualified party. The validity rate for petitions like that is always low, because invariably lots of people who sign will be registered Republicans or registered Democrats, and their signatures are no good. The Secretary of State’s website says Victor had 6,561 signatures.
Abolish the bi-partisan ballot monopoly and restore the ballot to the voters.
Hopefully he’s with the Mises Caucasus like all real libertarians.
Richard, the way to get much higher validity on a petition that only registered Libertarians and registered independents can sign is to go door-to-door with a walk lust of registered voters.
ONE person nom/issue pets.
Victor is pretty well known in Arizona and wealthier than your typical candidate. I think that had a lot to do with why he was successful while others failed. I’m hoping that his operation to get online signatures can be replicated by other candidates with his contact list.
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Why? It just wastes paper and makes signatures harder to get. People like to sign when they see others already signed.
I think he means only one signature should be needed to get on the ballot.
No, he’s explained this in the past. He thinks that petitioners can be eliminated by having voters send in nomination or initiative qualifying petitions with the blanks distributed through the mail or newspapers. Of course, this has been tried many times, and doesn’t work. The blanks just go in the trash with very few exceptions.
One person nomination forms work well in New Hampshire.
Maybe candidates should be able to decide for themselves how large or small their petition forms should be.
Different strokes for different folks.
“One person nomination forms work well in New Hampshire.”
No, it doesn’t. Many of their petition drives have failed and others cut it very close. People who travel around working on petitions have said that New Hampshire is a lot harder than most other states, maybe the hardest to get signatures in. It also wastes a lot of paper unnecessarily.
But at least New Hampshire does allow people to ask other people to sign, unlike az’s unrealistic hobbyhorse of waiting on people to return petitions mailed to their house or PO Box or distributed in newspapers. That’s failed everywhere it’s been tried (there may or may not be any exceptions. I don’t know of any off the top of my head).
“Maybe candidates should be able to decide for themselves how large or small their petition forms should be.
Different strokes for different folks.”
Yes, that’s a better way to do it. Some states do allow that. Others do not.
Candidate / issue folks walking around can obviously request voters to fill out forms in person.
How much election stuff now via the internet ???
Voter registrations ??? Address changes ??? etc.
Oregon — surviving with all mail ballots since 2000.
Mail ballots cause leftist election theft, which may be why Oregon is so relentlessly extreme communist. Besides, that doesn’t explain why azmunch wants to kill whole forests of trees just to make things harder for people who want to get themselves, or people or issues they support or get paid to push, on ballots. Not that there’s anything wrong with killing trees, this just seems like a stupid and wasteful reason.
Less killing of trees with 1 voter forms — esp long issue pets.
I don’t know what issues you have with pets, but one voter petition forms means many more pages, and many more pages for photocopies of those pages. Multiply that by all the different petitions in all jurisdictions and years and you’re talking deforestation on the planetary scale.
Qualification should be by personal appearance of supporters, with a more reasonable quota of 0.05% (1/20) of 1% of previous turnout.
For Arizona that would would be 1189 for statewide office, and an average of 132 for Congress.
So you want to make it even more difficult to qualify than azwipe does.
Az (Thomas Jones) is trying to prop up the failing Postal Service.
What an azhole. They deserve to die in a fire.