The New Hampshire November 2022 ballot will list four candidates for Governor: the Democratic nominee, the Republican nominee, and two candidates with the label “Libertarian”. Those two Libertarians are Karlyn Borysenko and Kelly Halldorson. The Borysenko petition had been found valid several weeks ago, and the Halldorson petition was very recently also found valid. Thanks to Daryl Perry for this news.
Kelly Halldorson is a rogue candidate, recruited by Nicholas Sarwark, to sabotage the officially nominated by the LP of NH candidate, Katyln Borysenko.
I have heard that the NH Secretary of State is going to count each of their votes seperately, so if neither of them meet the 4% vote test, the LP of NH will not obtain official party status and ballot access for 2024.
There’s rumors going around that Karlyn Borysenko had a relationship with a sex offender and knew about his status. Halldorson’s association with Sarwark immediately disqualifies her. So I guess the best thing for NHers to do is to hold their noses and vote Sunununu
I think it would be fun if a group started pestering the Libertarian Party by running candidates and as the Librarian Party.
There is no legal basis for the Secretary of State not to combine the votes for the two Libertarian candidates. The law says a qualified party is “any political organization which at the preceding state general election received at least 4% of the total number of votes” for either Governor or U.S. Senator.
The Secretary of State’s office already took the position in 2008, in Libertarian Party of New Hampshire v Gardner, that the office will not look beyond the label and will not try to adjudicate who has the authority to use the label. That case authorized the Secretary of State to put both Bob Barr and George Phillies on the general election ballot as “Libertarian” candidates for President. The Secretary of State won that case, so he isn’t free to disavow the old position.
Halldorson is a commie and a Sarwark puppet.
RW wrote:
“There is no legal basis for the Secretary of State not to combine the votes for the two Libertarian candidates”
So, whatever their differences, both factions are helping the party obtain qualified status in NH.
Walter, yes. Furthermore New Hampshire will be an experiment, to test the voter appeal of both factions of the party. And if the party becomes qualified, it will have its own primary in 2024 and the two factions can battle it out among the registered Libertarian primary voters.
The NH SOS SHOULD combine the vote totals of the two Libertarian Party candidates for Governor in order to see if they get the 4% vote test for a party to gain party status and ballot access, but just because they should to this it does not mean that they will do it.
This may have to go to a lawsuit.
A similar issue is how to combine the votes of candidates for President who get nominated by two parties in a state, each with different slates of electors. I believe that this happened in California in 2016 when both the Republican and American Independent Party nominated Trump, but submitted conflicting slates of electors. It was rather a moot point, tho, because even if you combined the votes for Trump, it wouldn’t have been sufficient defeat Hillary Clinton in California.
But, supposing that Trump somehow won the plurality of votes in California, it seems to me that the party with the most votes for the fusion candidate should win the electors.
Likewise, in New Hampshire, if the combined Libertarian vote exceeds the 4%, the faction with the most votes between them should have its organization designated as the official state party.
A single data point isn’t a great test of voter appeal. But, whichever side gets more votes will likely promote it as if it meant everything. I suspect whichever candidate is listed first on the ballot will get more votes. Unless the names are randomized on each ballot? I have no idea how NH handles that.
We need more “rogue candidates” like Halldorson to reclaim the Libertarian Party from the Kauffman gang. Borysenko is an advocate of surveillance cameras.
Gary is a communist.
Gary supports being forced to bake cakes and stealing affiliates.
Gary is obviously a fake libertarian.
Gary believes in government schools and evil teachers.
Is that why Gary’s hero Sarwark is running as a Democrat, meaning he’s a communist?