LibertyThunder
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Despite Ohio, Johnson Expects to Appear on All 50 Ballots
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/ohio-forces-johnson-independent/
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/ohio-forces-johnson-independent/
Draconian Ohio Rules Force Johnson/Weld to File as “Independent” Ticket
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LibertyThunder
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I'm not crying.. he's still going to be on the ballots lol... The last laugh will be held by the ones sick of the authoritarian culture reps & dems have promoted.
Yeah, they'll laugh and laugh as they tally up their ineffective candidate's pathetic percentages of the ballots.
LibertyThunder
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The debate commissioner told the host to make room for a possible third party candidate for the Presidential Debates
The debate commissioner told the host to make room for a possible third party candidate for the Presidential Debates
That news will be cheered by dozens, maybe.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
lol.....he couldn't find 30,000 people in Ohio that wanted to vote for him and that make Ohio draconian?......having a taste for sheep makes them draconian.......thinking they know how to play football makes them draconian.......but requiring candidates for president to have at least 30k people who like him?.......that's being practical.......
LibertyThunder
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Try being a candidate with a party nobody has heard of because the media won't mention them at all and see how easy it is... there needs to be election reform! The Constitution gave no role for political parties in elections... go figure
Airstrip One
Completely Effed
For future reference, always ban Legion Fag and Daesh/evince from your threads. That's too bad about Ohio. I'm very partisan, but I oppose obstructionist measures against third parties and independents.
Legionthecat
Double Platinum Catroll
The choice of Weld as the VP running mate did not exactly set their convention on fire.
Poor choice.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/gary-johnson-william-weld-libertarian-ticket-convention-223682
Poor choice.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/gary-johnson-william-weld-libertarian-ticket-convention-223682
It's a requirement for third party candidates only. But you have never let facts or truth get in your way.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
Oh bullshit....the repubs and demo just did it easily months ago
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Yea well quit crying and do something about t.
Legion Troll
A fine upstanding poster
Wrong, it's a requirement for third party candidates only.
http://www.lsc.ohio.gov/analyses130/13-sb193-130.pdf
Requires the candidates of new political parties to file nominating petitions not laterthan 110 days before the general election, and specifies the circumstances underwhich the names of those candidates will appear on the general election ballot as thenominees of the new political party.
Ohio's disgraceful impediments to Libertarian Party nominee and other third-party candidates: editorial
Thanks to a devious law Republicans rammed through the Ohio General Assembly in 2013, Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson will be legally considered as an independent on Ohio's ballot -- if he qualifies at all, which is not yet certain. That is, the word "Libertarian" wouldn't appear with his name.
In Tuesday's NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll, Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, was polling 12 percent of Ohio's vote. To bar a candidate drawing that kind of interest from voters would speak volumes about the flaws and unfairness of Ohio's law on third-party ballot access.
That law -- Senate Bill 193 -- passed along party lines and resulted from GOP fears at the time that Ohioans unhappy with Gov. John Kasich might vote for Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Charlie Earl, maybe helping Democrat Ed FitzGerald beat Kasich.
In the end, FitzGerald's campaign was a fiasco. And Earl was ruled off 2014's ballot on a technicality about petition circulators that meant he didn't have enough valid signatures on his petitions.
But SB 193 remains on Ohio's books. And on July 29, the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Libertarian challenge to the law, which makes minor-party status in Ohio complex and difficult to achieve.
So the best a Libertarian can hope for, for now, is to be considered an independent, not a Libertarian, on Ohio's ballot. That will make the party less visible to voters.
A federal appeals court has upheld a Columbus judge's decision to throw out a lawsuit by Libertarians that accused Ohio's elections chief of conspiring to help Republican Gov. John Kasich win re-election in 2014.
And Earl is that Libertarian candidate, temporarily at least -- assuming Libertarians gathered enough valid signatures.
That's because Earl is a placeholder for Johnson. The Libertarian Party of Ohio placed Earl's name on petitions to "save the spot" for Johnson because they'd started seeking signatures before the Libertarian Party convention nominated Johnson May 29. But there may be more legal hurdles to substituting Johnson for Earl.
The candidates expected to appear on Ohio's ballot are Democrat Hillary Clinton, Republican Donald Trump and the Green Party's Jill Stein. As noted, Johnson (or Earl) will be considered an independent, if they've gathered enough valid signatures. Also seeking to make the ballot with like independent status are Darrell Castle (of the Constitution Party), Greater Clevelander Richard Duncan of Aurora and Michael Steinberg, a Californian who ran in that state's Democratic primary and drew about 11,000 votes.
If Johnson, a candidate currently drawing double-digit poll numbers in the state, is denied a place on Ohio's ballot, it's all the more reason to revisit a state law that imposes such a serious election handicap on third parties.
Thanks to a devious law Republicans rammed through the Ohio General Assembly in 2013, Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson will be legally considered as an independent on Ohio's ballot -- if he qualifies at all, which is not yet certain. That is, the word "Libertarian" wouldn't appear with his name.
In Tuesday's NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll, Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, was polling 12 percent of Ohio's vote. To bar a candidate drawing that kind of interest from voters would speak volumes about the flaws and unfairness of Ohio's law on third-party ballot access.
That law -- Senate Bill 193 -- passed along party lines and resulted from GOP fears at the time that Ohioans unhappy with Gov. John Kasich might vote for Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Charlie Earl, maybe helping Democrat Ed FitzGerald beat Kasich.
In the end, FitzGerald's campaign was a fiasco. And Earl was ruled off 2014's ballot on a technicality about petition circulators that meant he didn't have enough valid signatures on his petitions.
But SB 193 remains on Ohio's books. And on July 29, the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Libertarian challenge to the law, which makes minor-party status in Ohio complex and difficult to achieve.
So the best a Libertarian can hope for, for now, is to be considered an independent, not a Libertarian, on Ohio's ballot. That will make the party less visible to voters.
A federal appeals court has upheld a Columbus judge's decision to throw out a lawsuit by Libertarians that accused Ohio's elections chief of conspiring to help Republican Gov. John Kasich win re-election in 2014.
And Earl is that Libertarian candidate, temporarily at least -- assuming Libertarians gathered enough valid signatures.
That's because Earl is a placeholder for Johnson. The Libertarian Party of Ohio placed Earl's name on petitions to "save the spot" for Johnson because they'd started seeking signatures before the Libertarian Party convention nominated Johnson May 29. But there may be more legal hurdles to substituting Johnson for Earl.
The candidates expected to appear on Ohio's ballot are Democrat Hillary Clinton, Republican Donald Trump and the Green Party's Jill Stein. As noted, Johnson (or Earl) will be considered an independent, if they've gathered enough valid signatures. Also seeking to make the ballot with like independent status are Darrell Castle (of the Constitution Party), Greater Clevelander Richard Duncan of Aurora and Michael Steinberg, a Californian who ran in that state's Democratic primary and drew about 11,000 votes.
If Johnson, a candidate currently drawing double-digit poll numbers in the state, is denied a place on Ohio's ballot, it's all the more reason to revisit a state law that imposes such a serious election handicap on third parties.