Marc J. Victor has qualified to appear on the Arizona Libertarian primary ballot of August 2, 2022. He is the first Libertarian to qualify for the Libertarian primary ballot in Arizona, for any federal or state office, since the legislature made primary ballot access for small established parties very difficult. That change was made in 2015.

Other Libertarians this year have filed as write-ins in the primary, but the 2015 law makes it extremely difficult for established minor parties to nominate by write-in in their own primary.

Qualified minor parties that have not been on the ballot for very long are permitted to nominate by write-in in their own primaries, with only a single write-in vote. Thus the Green Party had nominees on the Arizona ballot in 2016 and 2018. But in 2020 and this year, the Green Party is not ballot-qualified.

New York Supreme Court Justice Patrick McAllister will hold a hearing on Thursday, May 19, at 10 a.m., in Bath, New York. The purpose of the hearing will be to consider petitioning relief for independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, for the 2022 election. Here is the order setting up the hearing.

As reported previously, on March 17, the Indiana Green Party filed a federal lawsuit over the large number of signatures needed for the nominees of unqualified parties to get on the ballot. Indiana Green Party v Sullivan, s.d., 1:22cv-518. No statewide minor party or independent candidate petition has succeeded in Indiana since 2000. Indiana is one of only four states in which Ralph Nader never appeared on the ballot. The other three, Georgia, Oklahoma, and North Carolina, have since Nader last ran eased their procedures for presidential candidates, if not for all office.

The Indiana case is getting a slow start, because the state has twice asked for a delay in responding. The original response was due April 13, but now it is due May 18.