The Personal Choice Party, as expected, submitted a petition to re-qualify for the Utah ballot on February 15. Assuming it has enough valid signatures, and also assuming the Libertarian Party has enough valid signatures, there will be 5 fully-qualified parties in Utah this year (the Constitution Party did not need to petition this year, due to its high vote in 2006).

The Personal Choice Party only exists in Utah. Its ballot logo is the famous “smiley-face”. In 2004, its first year of existence, it ran Charles Jay for president.

Parties that did not qualify as full parties can still place nominees on the November ballot this year, using the independent candidate procedure, which permits a partisan label. The Green Party used that method in Utah in 2000.

On February 17, the Libertarian Party’s National Committee, meeting in Las Vegas, passed a resolution strongly opposing current U.S. policy toward Iraq. See the text here. Former Congressman Bob Barr, a member of the Libertarian National Committee, pushed hard for this resolution.

There is still no compilation of the results of the Massachusetts Green Party presidential primary, held February 5. The Massachusetts Secretary of State traditionally doesn’t release any election returns until he is finished with the final, complete tally. Although a few enterprising reporters have gathered the results from certain cities, no one appears to have yet compiled even an unofficial tally for the state as a whole.

The Arizona Libertarian Party, which held its own presidential primary on the internet on February 5, still hasn’t released the vote totals from that primary.