1. Based Colorado.

2. Harlos needs to be removed from the LNC immediately.

3. Kennedy did the independent petition in Colorado. He did not need the LP’s ballot access anyway.

4. The LPCO controls the LP’s ballot line in Colorado, not the national party; and so the LPCO board of directors are the ones who nominate the Libertarian presidential candidate who will appear on the Colorado ballot, not the national party’s chair and secretary.
   Jena Griswold is no stranger to breaking the law, but this could become one hell of a lawsuit if the LPCO decides to sue – which I therefore naturally hope they do, though I doubt they’ll consider it worth the time and effort.

5. The Colorado law is somewhat unusual, compared to other states. The national convention secretary has a role to play in the Colorado system.

6. This was from a comment at TPW:

   When two sets of nominations, both by conventions purporting to have been held by the same political party, and each in apparent conformity with this section, are certified to the secretary of state, he has no power to decide between them, but should certify both tickets to the county clerks in order that both may be printed upon the official ballots. People ex rel. Eaton v. Dist. Court, 18 Colo. 26, 31 P. 339 (1892).

   How does it apply here, if at all? Subsequently superseded?

7. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., doesn’t want the Colorado LP nomination any longer. Two competing slates of presidential electors, both on the ballot, would diminish his chances of carrying the state. The vote for his two slates couldn’t be combined.

   In 1968 George Wallace went to court in South Carolina to prevent two separate slates from being on the ballot, both pledged to him. He won the lawsuit.

8. So that’s legal in Colorado, if he did want it?

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