The Arkansas Libertarian Party is currently circulating its petition to regain its party status. It needs 10,000 valid signatures. On Saturday, June 14, some volunteer petitioners collected approximately 500 signatures while at the “No Kings” demonstrations in the state. This is the best day the drive has had.
Approximately 6,000 signatures have been collected so far. The petitions are due May 31, 2026.
Lol. This deserves a blog post? I know a number of petitioners who collected over 500 in one day by themselves at everything from a festival to election day to colleges to stores etc.
I’m trying to search my fading memory if I ever broke 500 on one petition in one day myself when I was in the business. Over 400 multiple times for sure.
Supposedly there were 5 million people at these “no kings” events in the US, at least according to the leftist establishment media and or organizers, so probably tens of thousands in Arkansas. If the petitioners only got 500 of those to sign I wouldn’t brag about it if I was them.
And it can’t be blamed on it being a leftist crowd either. I’ve collected plenty of signatures for right wing minor parties ballot access at leftist events and vice versa. Of course it depends how you pitch it.
My guess is that the 500 is due to having a small number of volunteer or local semi-pro signature collectors. If they had real pros working they probably would have at the very least broken a thousand, or maybe several thousand even.
More commies in the LP. Great.
Did Andy Gonzalez circulate?
Nick Sarwark and Chase Oliver are jacking off to the thought of more commies in the LP.
Congratulations to the Arkansas Libertarian Party for their earnest efforts and best wishes for their ballot access success!
Does Whitfield ever post anything that isn’t pointless or retarded?
Why are we still talking about that faggot Chase Oliver? He’s a laughingstock.
How many LP ballot access petitions since 1970-1972 ???
Hundreds ??? thousands ???
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nonstop failure to bring up 1954 Brown v bd of ed
re BALLOT ACCESS OF INDIVIDUAL CANDIDATES
Petitioning is the art of taking advantage of someone else’s crowd.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/scandal-of-the-century-just-broke-the-fbi-has-officially-confirmed-that-the-2020-election-was-stolen
The truth!
That infowars story is not the truth. China was making phony drivers licenses for teen-agers who wanted to buy alcohol. There is no evidence relating that, to the election process in 2024 or any other year.
Of course Richard is denying it because he loves Biden and supports fraud. He’s admitted to it,
Is Richard getting paid by the CCP? Why else would he deny this?
Richard has praised Xi in the past, so it’s very possible.
Thank you Mr. Winger for your decades of detailed news of electoral democracy. It is rather bizarre that the Kremlin and their Trump bootlickers waste their time spamming the comments here – but I’m glad that they are wasting Musk’s money where it will change nobody’s mind, eh?
“Canadian observer” is obviously a communist troll.
Trump bless us for the truth finally coming out about the 2020 election.
Did they lose ballot access because Chase Oliver was so pathetic?
Richard Winger, how do you know that? There’s an open FBI investigation and evidence has been submitted.
Arkansas requires 3% for President or Governor (in non-presidential years) to retain ballot status. No minor party candidate for President or Governor in Arkansas has done this in a long time.
They’ve come very close several times.
Richard is a Biden and Xi supporter. He’ll never admit 2020 was stolen.
“You don’t even want to know” is almost certainly Paul Frankel trolling under a fake name.
I do not know who Andy Gonzalez is, but I was not in Arkansas. I, and another individual, did gather around 500 petition signatures at “No Kings” protest rallies in a different state on a petition that was not for the Libertarian Party. We got a little over 500 signatures. I got 300 and the other person got 200 and something. We hit three rallies in three different cities. We had to drive and find places to park for each ralley. There were a bunch of them in a bunch of places. Some were scheduled for 2 hours and some for 3 hours. The 2nd ralley we went to overlapped time with the first one partially, so when you factor in the drive time and the time spent looking for parking and walking to the ralley we missed most of the 2nd one.
I am not sure how many volunteers it took to get those 500 signatures in Arkansas but that is a good accomplishment for volunteers. I am not sure how many volunteers they had but if multiple cities in Arkansas had these rallies I think it would have been posaible to gather more than 500 signatures if they had covered a bunch of rallies.
My best days for number of unique individual signers in one day were 600 on one petition and 500 on another petition in Maine (the 2nd petition had been out longer so lots of people had already signed), 523 signers in Oklahoma, 517 signatures in North Dakota, 485 signers in North Dakota, 450 signers in North Dakota, 434 signers in Ohio, 407 signers in Ohio and 400 signers in Pennsylvania.
It is very difficult to do those kind of numbers and one needs a pretty ideal location with decent enough weather (rain or snow csn ruin it unless maybe you have a good indoor spot) and other ideal conditions to pull it off, which is why it does not happen often.
Rude. If I wanted you to know who I was, I would have told you. Your obsession with your former lover is boring and was old years ago. I’m not trolling just because I’m pseudonymous. Trolling is what you’re doing with harping on your ex. Not asking to be doxxed =/= trolling.
Aside from that your bragging actually added nothing except unnecessary details to what I already said despite your ridiculous nonsense based on nothing about who I am and calling me a troll for no reason. Did I even say anything that wasn’t true? The world does not revolve around you, your personal accomplishments, or your failed relationships.
Maybe it’s actually $tock.
The other suspect I can think of for “You don’t want to know” is Eric Dondero-Rittberg, but I still lean toward it being the first suspect.
Robert Stock does not know anything about the petition business, unless somebody briefed him on it and now he pretends like he knows something about it.
There are no suspects. It’s just none of your business. Get a life and quit stalking.
“You don’t want to know” would have to be somebody who is familiar with the petition business, unless somebody is giving him files about it which he reads and then comes on here pretending to know what he is talking about.
I doubt this is what it is though. The most probable culprit is Paul Frankel, who has posted under fake names here and at IPR and TPW and other sites for many years. He claims he quit politics, yet he comes back like a junkie looking for a crack.
rock.
Andrew J,
Hey jackass, I already told you I’m familiar with the petition business, and have been a professional petitioner in the past, so that’s not exactly a brilliant discovery on your part. Maybe at least try reading what I wrote first before you start playing your idiotic detective games that nobody asked you to play and trying to violate my privacy? I’m not pretending jack shit, you goofy OCD autistic spectrum loser.
Second, once again, who I am is not your business. If it were, I woulda told you. Did anyone ask your opinion? As my name says, you’d regret finding out who I am if you ever did. Which you won’t.
I’m not posting under a “fake name” or “trolling.” I’m posting under a pseudonym because my privacy is important in my current business or job and in my personal life. There are stalkers and doxxers, including lurkers and people who don’t keep online arguments online. I don’t know who might be reading or participating here.
I don’t want that kind of problem, so I choose to post under a pseudonym. It’s my right, just like it’s your right to not disclose your last name, or for that matter your address, phone number, SSN, or anything else. Everyone has the right to choose their own level of online privacy. Giving away some information could lead those malevolent people to discover much more, and disclose it against your wishes in all sorts of places, including forums actually dedicated to fucking with people and make your life miserable just for fun and profit.
So, I have a life and it does not involve anything being discussed here, so I choose not to disclose who I am and take those risks. I may have personal experience with that sort of thing or know people who do. If you don’t have a life, or don’t know anyone who has had those experiences, that’s your problem, not mine. If you can’t get over your ex, that’s also not my problem.
Maybe I have an ex or someone else who won’t get over me and is stalking me online, and offline or he or she gets the chance. Maybe there’s even more than one of those people. On the off chance that you have a conscience, do you want to be responsible for them discovering where I am, or anything else they might use against me in any number of ways that I don’t need, didn’t ask for, and didn’t do anything to you to deserve?
How do you know I’m not one of those people who will violate your own privacy preferences, doxx you, share all sorts of information about you in all sorts of places, maybe hire people to mess with you? I disclosed just the first letter of your last name. You have no idea what else I may or may not know or find out.
And before you say that you have nothing to hide or say “bring it on” or whatever, don’t imagine that nobody can hurt you in ways you don’t anticipate. They can get the drop on you at some point and catch you off guard. They can get you kicked out of work locations, SWATted, cost you jobs, get your car towed, cause your banks and credit cards to suspend your accounts, etc, etc.
If you have relatives or anyone else in your life you care about, they could be subjected to all sorts of harassment like that, and other kinds that may not apply to you. If you’re a narcissist who only cares about yourself, you may just not like who all may want to have nothing to do with you just to avoid all these kinds of harassment.
Don’t read that as a threat, although you can’t know that it’s not. The reason you don’t even want to know who I am may be because you have a conscience and your idiotic carelessness, obsessiveness, idle curiosity, and sticking your nose where it does not belong causes me to get hurt.
Or it could cause you to get hurt.
Or both.
There could be people who would get hurt as a result of starting a fight with me just because you consider it your business to know who I am when it is actually none of your business at all.
So, please back off and quit now. And keep your idiotic guesses about who I am to yourself. Doesn’t “you don’t even want to know who I am” give you any kind of clue so these sorts of things need to be explained to you like you are a total moron, a child, or never heard them before?
I didn’t start shit with you. Stop trying to start shit with me. Don’t start none, won’t be none.
I have a right to comment and keep my privacy. Why I want to keep it is my business too, even if it’s just to avoid ad hominem distractions, but there could be lots of other reasons why, as I already explained.
Don’t start a war for no reason. Even if you “win,” or even if there is such a thing as winning, it will cost you way more than it’s worth.
So, maybe you could try playing nice, not opening yourself or other people up to problems you and they don’t need, and quit with the stupid guessing games once and for all?
There are things which are your business and things that are not. Who anyone is that doesn’t disclose it is in that second category.
Don’t bitch about my comments being long, either. Yours can be really long too. Read them, learn something, and remember it, hopefully before you have to learn these things the hard way.
Try showing people the same respect that you would want others to show you for a change?