On October 16, the Ohio Libertarian Party filed this 10-page brief, explaining that the Ohio Republican Party was the true actor in keeping the Libertarian gubernatorial candidate off the ballot in 2014. This part of the case now centers on whether the process that kept the candidate off the ballot was an example of selective prosecution of the law.
In 2014, the Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. Senate from Kentucky, David Patterson, was barred from all debates. He and the Libertarian Party filed a federal lawsuit on September 28, 2014, charging that after it appeared Patterson would qualify for inclusion, the rules were changed, to provide that no one could be in the debate who had not raised at least $100,000 for the campaign.
The lawsuit, Libertarian National Committee v Holiday, e.d., 3:14cv-63, had no activity between December 16, 2014, until September 11, 2015. Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove then finally said there will be a trial. On September 28, 2015, the defendants finally answered the Complaint.
The Portland Press Herald has this story about the initiative for instant runoff voting. It will almost certainly be on the Maine ballot in November 2016. The signatures will be submitted on October 19.
Juan Williams writes here at Fox News that the nation would be better off if the Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House left the Republican Party and became its own political party.
The Brattleboro Reformer, a Vermont newspaper, has this column by Richard Davis advocating a multi-party system for the U.S.
