On January 9, the Maine Secretary of State determined that the Libertarian Party is now a qualified party. It needed 5,000 registered members and as of the January 2 deadline, it has at least 5,168. Some are still being processed so there will be more later.
The party is free to have a presidential primary if it wishes, but presidential candidates would need 1,000 signatures of registered Libertarians or registered independents.
My understanding is that the deadline for participation in Maine’s presidential primary hass already passed.
That was my understanding as well.
No matter, as there’s no mechanism for the primary to effect the LP presidential nomination process in Maine, as we’ve already selected our delegates to the national convention, at a state convention that had four of the presidential candidates in attendance. It would have been nice to use an LP primary as a PR effort, but we had bigger things on the agenda (like getting all those registrations to begin with)