On October 17, the ACLU Voting Rights Office filed a notice of appeal of the New Mexico Libertarian Party ballot access case, to the 10th circuit. The issue is whether New Mexico can require new parties to submit multiple petitions for itself and each of its nominees. New Mexico requires one petition to qualify the party itself, lets it nominate by convention, but then requires all the nominees chosen by that convention to file still more petitions. The US District Court had upheld the law on September 18.