At the November 5 election, Libertarian candidates for U.S. Senate received 1,025,765 votes. This is not the first time the party’s candidates for U.S. Senate have topped one million. It also happened in 1992, 2000, 2016, and 2020.

The 2024 total includes the Wisconsin vote for Philip Norman Anderson, the Libertarian whose ballot label was “Disrupt the Corruption”, not “Libertarian.” He held himself out as the Libertarian nominee, and was simultaneously a Libertarian Party nominee for presidential elector, as well as recent past state party chair. See this newspaper story about his campaign. He polled 42,315 votes.

Two New Jersey Assemblymembers introduced AB 5116 on December 9. It changes New Jersey primary ballot format to an office group ballot. It is pending in the Assembly Committee on Ballot Design.

It has no effect on the general election ballot.

The sponsors are Benjie Wimberly and Al Barlas. Both are Democrats.

On December 10, a New Jersey state appeals court heard arguments in In Re Malinowski, A-3542-21T2. Here is a news story about the hearing. The three judges seemed very engaged in the case, and although the story says they didn’t tip their hand about their opinions, fusion advocates left the hearing feeling optimistic.