On August 8, a challenge was filed against the New York Libertarian statewide petition, for president and U.S. Senate. The challengers are Philip Donald Stevens of Berne, New York, and Molly Rouse of Buffalo, New York.

New York requires 15,000 signatures. The Libertarian petition has 32,617 signatures. So far there are only general objections. The objectors have five days to file specific objections.

Roll Call, Reuters, and Libertarian Republic on August 8 all published incorrect information about the Florida deadline for an emerging presidential candidate to get on the November ballot. Here is the Roll Call story and here is the Libertarian Republic story. Here is a Reuters story. All three claim the deadine in Florida has passed.

Actually, Florida permits a new party to qualify as late as the end of August. The authors of these stories are not fully informed because they only pay attention to the petition deadline for independent presidential candidates. The Florida independent presidential deadline is July 15, but that is irrelevant, because no independent presidential candidate has used that procedure since 1992. Instead they either create their own party, or persuade one of the many bllot-qualified parties to nominate them.

William Weld is scheduled to personally submit the Libertarian Party’s Massachusetts presidential petition at 2:30 p.m., August 8. See this story.