The Georgia Libertarian Party has been in federal court ever since 2017, in its lawsuit against the law on how a minor party can run a U.S. House candidate. As this website has repeatedly said, the Georgia law for U.S. House ballot access for independent candidates and the nominees of parties that didn’t poll 20% of the vote for president is the worst ballot access law in the nation. No third party has ever been able to overcome since it was created in 1943.

The party’s Eleventh Circuit brief is due January 17, 2025. The case had almost completely lost, but the equal protection argument had still been alive, and then the legislature earlier this year amended the law to give the case a stronger argument. The new Georgia law lets a minor party on the ballot for president automatically if its presidential nominee is on in 20 other jurisdictions. This new law completely undercuts the state’s argument that it has a compelling interest in keeping all candidates off the ballot who aren’t extremely well-supported. The new presidential law means a candidate may be on the Georgia ballot for president even if he or she has no support whatsoever in Georgia.

The U.S. District Court refused to let the party amend its Complaint to take coognizance of the new law, so the appeals court will be asked to reverse that decision.

The New York State Board of Elections has released the official vote from last month’s election, including the write-in vote for declared write-in presidential candidates. Jill Stein received 46,698 write-ins. This is the second largest number of votes ever recorded for a general election write-in presidential candidate in any state. The only candidate with a higher total was independent candidate Eugene McCarthy in California in 1976. He received 58,412.

The other declared write-in candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state received these totals: Claudia De la Cruz 6,327; Chase Oliver 5,338; Cornel West 4,152; Peter Sonski 1,544; Shiva Ayyadurai 134.

No one was on the ballot except for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. did not file for write-in status. However, there were 46,404 “void” votes cast, which is probably almost entirely the number of write-in votes for candidates who hadn’t filed for write-in status.

Jill Stein’s percentage of the vote is .57%.

Gregg Amore, the Rhode Island Secretary of State, sppke to a meeting of the Libertarian National Committee on December 7. The meeting was in Providence, Rhode Island. Amore, who is a former state legislator, voiced support for a proposed bill to ease the definition of a qualified party. The current vote test is 5%, but the median vote test of the 50 states is 2%.

No third party has met the Rhode Island vote test since 2014, when the Moderate Party got 21.4% for Governor. The only offices that count are President and Governor.