Libertarian Party History Shows Harm in Depriving Minor Party Nominees of the Party Label on the General Election Ballot

The Libertarian Party has had nominees on the ballot for Governor and/or U.S. Senator in all 50 states. But only in Tennessee have the Libertarian nominees been unable to have their party label on the ballot, except in 2000.

When one examines the best percentage ever for a Libertarian for Governor or U.S. Senator in each state, in only three states is there no instance when a Libertarian for those offices managed to get as much as 1%. They are Tennessee, Maine, and Rhode Island. The main reason there are no such examples in Maine and Rhode Island is that there have been so few Libertarians on the ballot for Governor and U.S. Senate in those two states. Rhode Island is the only state in which the party has never been on the ballot for U.S. Senate.

In Tennessee, minor party nominees suffer because they only have the label “independent” next to their names, and most voters don’t know who the minor party nominees are. Tennessee won’t permit party labels except for qualified parties, and the petition to be a qualified party is so difficult, no group has ever used it since 1968, when George Wallace’s American Party did it. It requires 56,083 signatures.


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Libertarian Party History Shows Harm in Depriving Minor Party Nominees of the Party Label on the General Election Ballot — 14 Comments

  1. UNEQUAL BALLOT ACCESS IN ALL STATES FOR PARTISAN OFFICES.

    INCOMPETENT USELESS BALLOT ACCESS LAWYERS —

    FAILING TO NOTE 1954 BROWN V BD OF ED — SEPARATE IS NOT EQUAL.

    MERE 46+23 = 69 YEARS AND COUNTING.

  2. For context: Back in the 1970s Jim Burns legally changed his middle name to “Libertarian” in order to force the state of Nevada to put the word on the ballot.

  3. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/08/trump-braces-for-possible-federal-charges-after-being-warned-hes-a-target-of-documents-probe/70303383007/

    NATION
    Trump charged over classified documents in 1st federal indictment of an ex-president

    Eric Tucker, Jill Colvin and Michael Balsamo Associated Press

    Miami — Donald Trump said Thursday that he has been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate, igniting a federal prosecution that is arguably the most perilous of multiple legal threats against the former president as he seeks to reclaim the White House.

    The Justice Department did not immediately publicly confirm the indictment. But two people familiar with the situation who were not authorized to discuss it publicly said that the indictment included seven criminal counts. One of those people said Trump’s lawyers were contacted by prosecutors shortly before he announced on his Truth Social platform that he had been indicted.


    Another attack on DC from all directions ???

    White House excuse for martial law and NOOO 2024 elections ???

  4. Why would Trump being indicted lead to martial law and the cancellation of the 2024 elections?

  5. TRUMP AND HIS EVIL CONTROL FREAK BRAIN GOT LOTS OF TRUMP FOOLS TO ATTACK ON 6 JAN 2021.

    WILL HE POUR OUT MORE FELON STUFF [AKA INCITATION] WHEN HE IS ARRESTED ???

    — ESP CALL FOR HIS FOOLS TO OPENLY REBEL ???

    THEREBY GIVING TYRANT JB AN EXCUSE TO *SUSPEND* THE USA CONST ???

    SEE HITLER NOV 1923 IN MUNICH, GERMANY.

  6. You’re going to be disappointed on both.

    Law enforcement did not take Trump’s insurrection attempt seriously the first time. They’ve learned that lesson and won’t be caught off guard, again. There is no need for a suspension of the Constitution. Even the first time, when law enforcement wasn’t prepared for Trump’s failed insurrection attempt, there was no need for suspending the Constitution. Why would there be a need when they are prepared?

    We just went through the possibility of arrest of a president with Mueller. He said in his report that he did not believe they could do that to a sitting president, so his report was only to document evidence of Trump’s crimes, not to prosecute him. Prosecution could only come after Trump was out of office, either by losing an election or through impeachment. Republicans, naturally, tried to spin Mueller’s declination to prosecute as “evidence” that the entire investigation was a politically motivated fraud and that Trump did nothing wrong, and stupid people believed them.

    So, no Biden is not going to be arrested. At least, not while he is in office. And it is wildly premature to conclude that there is anything in the allegation that would cause him to be removed from office.

  7. The retardedness in the comments is off the charts.
    Trump did not plan an insurrection, nor were documents mishandled. AZ and Jim are retarded communists who love Biden and dictators like him.

  8. Trump Extremists Demand Civil War, Mass Murder After New Indictment

    TROLL MORONS CAN LOOK UP THE URL.

    ALL THE PARTY REGISTRATION PURGE LISTS ABOUT TO BE USED ???

  9. Oh my God AZ is getting more retarded by the minute. He’s probably on Biden’s payroll.

  10. That would be a waste of money even for those profligate big spenders with massive mints of resources stolen from slaves, knaves, and serfs here, in red China, and in every nation of the world.

    As for Trump, he called for no insurrection, created none, and looks overwhelmingly likely to win the Republican nomination and general election next year by such overwhelming margins that the Democrats, communists, globalists and mau maus won’t plausibly be able to cheat and claim Biden, Harris, or any other Chinese Communist quisling puppet regime figurehead actually won. In 2020 it was close enough for them to fool enough people to get away with it. In 2024 it won’t be. Trump will win in a historically massive landslide. Just in the nick of time to save America, save European based Christian civilization, and save the world from globalist communist fascist tyranny. Hopefully also in time to keep the United States out of world war 3 in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

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