Via Chris Geidner, comes this emergency motion to get the Johnson/Weld ticket on the Ohio ballot listed as Libertarians. (It is uncertain if Johnson/Weld might make it on the ballot as independent candidates without a party label should this… Continue reading
NBC First Read:
The reaction to the news of the latest Trump campaign shake-up has ranged from shock and disbelief to laughter. “Hiring [Breitbart’s Steve] Bannon to run the campaign in the midst of its crisis is insane,” Republican consultant… Continue reading
Josh Gerstein:
A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit alleging that the Commission on Presidential Debates violated federal antitrust laws and the First Amendment by excluding third-party candidates.
In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer… Continue reading
Stu Rothenberg for WaPo:
As long as Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein don’t qualify for the presidential debates, they won’t be able to attract voters away from the two major parties. Only when they can do… Continue reading
Az Cap Times:
Arizonans who are concerned about Clinton, terrified of Trump and are jittery about Johnson are going to have another choice.
Secretary of State Michele Reagan has agreed to put electors for Jill Stein on the Nov. 8… Continue reading
BAN:
On June 20, the Fourth Circuit agreed with the U.S. District Court that Virginia’s discriminatory listing of candidates on the general election ballot is constitutional. Libertarian Party of Virginia v Alcorn, 15-1162. The decision is by Judge… Continue reading
NYT:
A conservative donor who has been scouring Republican ranks for a third-party candidate is pressing ahead with a group to get on the ballot in dozens of states. The candidate will come once the group sees that the ballot… Continue reading
AP:
A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit by the Libertarian Party seeking to strike down a New Hampshire law that it argues could prevent third-party candidates from getting on the ballot.
The Libertarian… Continue reading
AP:
A federal judge delivered a legal victory Friday to Ohio’s elections chief and a voter sued by Libertarians for their roles in disqualifying the party’s gubernatorial candidate from 2014 fall ballots.
A lawyer for the Libertarian Party of… Continue reading
LAT:
A new analysis finds nearly 32,000 voters in California’s American Independent Party changed their official registration and left the party in the two weeks after a Los Angeles Times investigation identified widespread confusion among the party’s members.
The change… Continue reading
NYT:
William F. Weld, the twice-elected former Republican governor of Massachusetts, who was last seen campaigning in the 2006 Republican primary for governor of New York, now hopes to be on a national ticket as the vice-presidential nominee of… Continue reading
Richard Winger:
California election laws and election officials seem determined to stamp out the word “independent.” The state seems eager to suppress that word, on voter registration forms, on ballots, and even in the Official Statewide Voter Guide.