A Public Broadcasting station in Georgia has this story about the Libertarian Party’s absence from the 2026 statewide ballot. 2006 will be the first time since 1986 that only Republicans and Democrats will appear on the Georgia ballot for statewide offices. The story says Libertarians will try to lobby for better ballot access in next year’s legislative session.

The only reason the Libertarian Party is not on the 2026 ballot is that in 2024, the normal races for Public Service Commissioner were temporarily removed from the ballot. Libertarians always get enough votes for those offices, and normally they appear on the ballot in every election. But courts cancelled those elections for 2024 while a court fight was carried on as to whether the Voting Rights Act required that the Public Service Commissioner elections be district offices instead of statewide offices. In the end, the courts allowed those elections to continue to be statewide.