The Maryland Libertarian Party has been circulating a petition to regain its qualified party status. The petition needs 10,000 valid signatures. The party has about 6,800 signatures but has decided to complete the petition after the November 2026 election is over. Therefore, it won’t be on the ballot for the 2026 election.
The Green Party will be the only party on the 2026 ballot, other than the two major parties.
You mean gay communist Chase Oliver couldn’t get enough votes?
Why don’t Babylon Bee and Not The Bee links post here anymore?
So much for getting two elections for one ballot drive. This is a failure.
Lemon Party is Over
It’s going down …
Is the Working Class Party ballot-qualified as well? BAN reported this back in 2025: https://ballot-access.org/2025/05/01/working-class-party-completes-2026-petition-in-maryland/
The Marxist concept of working class is deceptive.
It typically includes the unemployed, retired, not yet working, outside the labor force, career criminals, prisoners and other institutionalized individuals, welfare recipients, etc.
Yet, it typically excludes many people who are gainfully and productively employed and or self employed because their income is above a certain threshold, they inherited wealth, their parents are wealthy regardless of what they may or may not eventually inherit, their profession is for some reason deemed “not working class,” etc.
It also discounts social mobility, which many people in the US experience, both upwards and downwards, multiple times and throughout their lives.
Stop running communists and you’ll have ballot access.
The “Libertarian Party” is neither.
Whatever happened to loyalty oaths? Can we bring them back already?
Q:
1) Joe McCarthy was unfairly maligned by communist agents and their fellow travellers
2) I wish!
Didn’t the LP sell itself to foreign agents?
Jim,
It’s more likely that it was created by them to begin with.
But, if not, then yes, it has, a long, long time ago.
The sole function of ballot access laws is deprive voters of choices not approved by the self-entrenched incumbent partisans. Unfree elections are a prime characteristic of a fascist police state.
You mean when Redpath had his opponent thrown off his ballot?
@Richard
I take it that the petitions don’t expire, right?
They should not even be needed at all. Let the qualified voters who show up to the election hall on election night form a party by standing together.