On November 12, the Tennessee Libertarian Party filed this opening brief in the Sixth Circuit in Lewis v Hargett, 24-5856. This is the case that challenges the Tennessee petition requirement for groups to qualify as a party. The law is so severe, no one has complied with it since 1968. It requires 56,083 signatures.
Because the petition for a party is so difficult, minor parties always run their nominees using the independent candidate procedure. But then they don’t have their party name on the ballot next to their nominees. This causes voter confusion, because the label “independent” is incorrect, and doesn’t give the voter any guidance about the actual party name. The U.S. Supreme Court has long recognized that voter confusion is an evil.
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Didn’t an attorney for the LP of Tennessee urge them to gather a few thousand signatures on a party status petition in order for them to have standing and to be able to show a judge that they were making an effort to gain party status? What happened with this? I seriously doubt they collected a few thousand petition signatures this quickly after the election.
Didn’t the No Labels Party successfully complete the party status petition in Tennessee for this election? I know they did not run any camsidates but I thought they completed the petition there.