The LNC Ballot Access Committee has presented a report identifying $130,000 in Presidential ballot expenses for this year. $15,000 has already been allocated.The lead current expense is $45,000 to run a candidate for Auditor in Massachusetts. If he gets 3% of the vote, few signatures would be needed in 2028 to put the Libertarian candidate on the November election ballot.…
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From the LP FEC report for January, the donation described by Tuniewicz would appear to be from Robert Willis of Mendon, Massachusetts, who identified himself as the President of Alpine Computer Systems, Inc. My search of the Party’s FEC filings for 2000 report that the Party’s major donations in 2000 were $50,000, $20,000, $15,000, $10,000, and two donations of $5000.…
From My Book Funding Liberty. In 1996, there was a small Libertarian activist group in Worcester. Our candidate for State Representative missed getting on the ballot through a fluke. His erstwhile Democratic opponent, Representative Binienda, was, nonetheless, annoyed by our candidate’s efforts to run for office. He rammed a bill through the state legislature doubling the number of signatures required…
Writing on Facebook, veteran Libertarian petitioner Andrew Jacobs reports that 2024 ballot access for the Libertarian Party of Ohio was created by a Democratic Party PAC. Jacobs writes “The Democrats hired paid petitioners and Libertarians did nothing except for turning in the signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State at the end.” We have good reason to believe that his…
We are in receipt of the following Dear friends of liberty, It’s official! We are on the ballot in 47 states. Countless individuals stepped up to make that happen, too many to thank individually. But there are a few who individually made the difference in one or more states that I want to publicly thank. The first is our national…
The meeting approaches coming to order. There were at last count 37 attendees. State topics are Alabama, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and strategy and ballot access (in executive session). Redpath raises Montana issues. All officers, at-large members, regional representatives, and four of the eight alternates are present. Public comment: Andy Jacobs in New Mexico: We are in danger of not…