On July 24, the Colorado Secretary of State’s office announced that it will list Chase Oliver on the ballot as the Libertarian presidential nominee.
On July 24, the Colorado Secretary of State’s office announced that it will list Chase Oliver on the ballot as the Libertarian presidential nominee.
Based Colorado.
Harlos needs to be removed from the LNC immediately.
Kennedy did the independent petition in Colorado. He did not need the LP’s ballot access anyway.
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.
The Colorado law is somewhat unusual, compared to other states. The national convention secretary has a role to play in the Colorado system.
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 Subsequently superseded?
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.
So that’s legal in Colorado, if he did want it?
Colorado law makes it a felony crime to participate in a fake elector scheme. The Chase campaign has asked its supporters to commit felonies for him. Of course, the corrupt Democrat that serves as a Secretary of State in Colorado knows this but doesn’t mention it.
Trump got dozens fake electors slates in his 2020 contest of the election. He didn’t get into trouble, the fake electors did.
CRS s. 1-13-725 False slate of presidential electors – penalties
https://casetext.com/statute/colorado-revised-statutes/title-1-elections/general-primary-recall-and-congressional-vacancy-elections/article-13-election-offenses/part-7-offenses-conduct-of-elections/section-1-13-725-false-slate-of-presidential-electors-penalties
James – The only candidate nominated at an LP convention was Oliver.
Does anything prevent the state party from holding a presidential nomination convention?
Maybe they could nominate Biden to split the Democrat vote? Or Michelle Obama? Do their state laws allow nomination without the candidate’s permission? I think Montana does, they ran Ron Paul without permission in 2008. Any other states?
This is the same Democrat Secretary of State that kept Trump off the Colorado ballot and defended their decision all the way to the US Supreme Court. This is a political decision. Nothing more.
Worse, the Chase campaign submitted fake electors to the CO SOS. There’s no statute of limitations for forgery… Democrat prosecutors can hold these charges back until its most expedient. The Trump fake electors were finally charged a few months ago.
Congratulations to Chase Oliver and Michael ter Matt the nominees of the Libertarian Party for President and Vice President! I hope they do very well and I look forward to voting for them in November.
Is Whitfield a bot? He posts the same bullshit over and over again. He obviously has no brain.
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Libertarian party of CO is really messed up. Chase is the Nominee therefore he should be on ballot. But Libertaian Party has been influenced by the Republician (Mises Caucus) and make decision for themselves and change rules or break rules and chose RFK.
It’s why the whole country is all messed up because of Republican Party take short cut. (McConnell blocking the SCOTUS appointment but then fast track the appointment t when Judge Ruth Ginsberg died.)
John is just Robert K Stock trolling again.
Ivan, the electors are the legal parties in interest, not the candidate. You vote for the electors. If someone wanted to put a slate of electors on the ballot for Richard Winger and Bill Redpath, there isn’t much Richard and Bill could do to stop them.
John, the Mises Caucus is Libertarian, not Republican.
Tim, that’s not true in all states. I know for a fact that some states will reject a presidential ticket application without the signatures of the presidential candidate, and in some cases also the vp candidate. I just don’t know how many states.
Tim, the misnamed caucus is a Republican fifth column, not libertarian.
Misnamed Republican Party bad because RINO. Liberty Caucus and Freedom Caucus bad because Republican Party, but less bad than any other RINO cauci.
Misnamed Libertarian Party bad because LINO. Mises Caucus bad because Libertarian Party, but less bad than any other LINO cauci.
No, no, no. They are all bad, because they’re all right wing, just like Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Jefferson Davis. Common sense moderate everyday normal people reject the crazy far right ultra maga loopytarians. We need a real president like childless cat lady Selina Harris, common sense gun confiscation, uncontrolled borders, defunding the police, decriminalizing retail theft and public defecation, mandatory abortion with a one child policy for everyone except newcomers, packing the supreme court, and other such moderately progressive ideas which appeal to moderates in swing states.
John is just Robert K Stock trolling again.
Stock is a troll is Stock. He just wants attention.