The Birmingham News has this lengthy news story about the Libertarian Party of Alabama and its 2022 candidates.
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On August 13, Hawaii held primaries for all six qualified parties. Here are the unofficial returns. If one scrolls to the bottom, one can see how many voters chose each party’s primary ballot. For the minor parties, the Green ballot was requested by 1,473 voters, Aloha Aina by 1,051 voters, Libertarian by 598, and Constitution by 188.
In the 2020 Hawaii primaries, there were 1,765 voters who chose a Libertarian primary ballot, 1,014 Green, 5,222 Aloha Aina, 278 Constitution, and 268 American Shopping.
The Vermont Secretary of State’s website has this list of qualified parties: Democratic, Republican, Progressive, Libertarian, and Green Mountain Peace & Justice. The latter party is actually the Liberty Union Party, with a new name.
The Working Families Party is no longer qualified in Vermont.
New stories say the Libertarian Party is running Ericka Redic for U.S. House. She is the first Libertarian to run for Vermont’s U.S. House seat since 2002.
On October 12, the Eleventh Circuit stayed the order of a U.S. District Court in Rose v Raffensperger, 22-12593. This is the case over whether Georgia’s Public Service Commissioners should be elected statewide, or in districts. The Eleventh Circuit order, restoring statewide elections for 2022, was 2-1. Judges Adalberto Jordan, an Obama appointee, and Robert J. Luck, a Trump appointee, were in the majority. They said little about the merits, but that the U.S. District Court Judge should not have changed the elections to district elections so close to the election. Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum, an Obama appointee, dissented. Here is the order, in which the dissent is much longer than the majority portion.
Michael Badnarik died on August 11, 2022. He was the Libertarian presidential nominee in 2004. He was 68.