Technical Errors Invalidate All Libertarian Party Nominees for Local Office in Erie County, New York

Posted on by September 19, 2019
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New York holds partisan local elections on November 5, 2019. This story says that all Libertarians running in Erie County have been removed from the ballot because of paperwork errors. 2019 is the first election in which the Libertarian Party has been a ballot-qualified party in New York state, so the party doesn’t have the experience with this type of paperwork that the older qualified parties have.

Libertarian Fails to Get on Ballot for Alabama Special Legislative Election

Posted on by September 19, 2019
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The Libertarian Party petition for ballot access in the upcoming special election for State House, 42nd district, has been rejected. The party was initially told it was 19 signatures short. It found 30 signatures that it believed had been erroneously rejected. The state accepted six signatures. It said evidence about the remaining signatures was submitted too late. See this story.

All of this will be evidence in the pending lawsuit over whether the state must give a free list of the registered voters to unqualified parties that are petitioning. That case is now undergoing discovery.

Montana Green Party Files Ballot Access Brief

Posted on by September 18, 2019
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On September 18, the Montana Green Party filed this brief in U.S. District Court, in the party’s ballot access lawsuit. It challenges the strangely unequal distribution requirement for party petitions, and the early petition deadline. The case arose in 2018, after the party’s petition was rejected for not complying with the distribution requirement.