On September 12, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy signed SB 161, which eases the definition of a qualified party. The old law required registration equal to 3% of the last vote cast, and was the nation’s most severe registration test for party status except for Pennsylvania’s 15%. The new law requires exactly 5,000 registrations.
The immediate effect is to restore the Libertarian Party’s qualified status, which will save it from having to petition for its presidential nominee.
Eleven Alaska legislative candidates withdrew from the general election before the deadline to withdraw last week. See this story.
Despite the withdrawals, there are still legislative candidates from six parties: Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, Alaskan Independence, Constitution, and Veterans.
On September 6, a Nevada state trial court ruled that the Libertarian Party’s nominee for Attorney General should remain on the ballot. John Kennedy, the nominee, is not a member of the Nevada bar. A law passed in 2021 requires candidates for Attorney General to be members of the Bar.
Kennedy himself is willing to withdraw, but he will remain on the ballot because the decision says that withdrawal is too late, and also that the challenger should have acted much sooner. See this story.
On September 9, the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, declined to put the Libertarian slate of statewide candidates on the ballot. Here is the eight-page order.
The Vermont Secretary of State has posted a list of candidates for November 2022. See here, and then click on “General Election Candidate Listing.”
The Progressive Party is running its own member, David Zuckerman, for another term as Lieutenant Governor. He was the Lieutenant Governor 2016-2020, but then he didn’t run for re-election in 2020. Instead he ran for Governor, but he did not win.
The Progressive Party also has eight legislative candidates who are party members, the smallest number of its own member-candidates for the legislature that it has run since 1998. In 2020 it had 18 member-candidates for the legislature. Of course, it also cross-endorsed some Democratic nominees this year as it always does.
The Libertarian Party has a candidate for U.S. House, one member-candidate for the legislature, and it also cross-endorsed five Republican nominees for the legislature.
The Green Mountain Peace & Justice Party, formerly Liberty Union, has nominees for U.S. Senate and Lieutenant Governor, but none for any other federal or state office.
