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“Thirty-seven percent of Americans now view the Republican Party favorably and 39% view the Democratic Party favorably. This is the only time since Gallup began tracking the party’s images this way in 1992 that neither party has achieved at least 40% favorability from the public.” Read more.    

The US District Court yesterday upheld the current Ohio ballot access law, which requires newly-qualifying parties to collect signatures equal to 1% of the gubernatorial vote in the previous general election. To get on the ballot for the 2016 elections, the Ohio LP would have to submit 30,560 signatures by July 6, 2016. To stay […]

A bill to ease ballot access in Alabama was introduced in the state Senate by four legislators last week. The legislation, if passed, would lower the number of signatures required by newly-qualifying parties and independent candidates from 3% of the last gubernatorial vote to 1.5%. Under current law, to become a political party, a group would […]

Attention Libertarians and supporters of ballot fairness: If you live, or know anyone living, in Georgia, please help the vitally important effort below to remove impossibly-difficult restrictions on ballot access in the state by calling your congressman or attending Crossover Day on Friday morning, March 13: Dear Ballot Access Supporters: Friday, March 13 is an […]

The Libertarian National Committee (LNC) is seeking applicants to serve on the Platform Committee, the Bylaws and Rules Committee, and the Credentials Committee for the May 27-30, 2016 national convention in Orlando, Florida.  The LNC expects to make the appointments during its March 28-29, 2015 meeting so as to give the committees plenty of time […]

The Libertarian Party of Oklahoma, the state with the most difficult petitioning requirements in the country for presidential candidates, may see big relief if a bill passed unanimously on March 10 in the state’s House of Representatives becomes law. The required number of signatures to get on the ballot would drop from 5 percent of the votes cast in […]

Arvin Vohra will be hosting the show Libertarians Working For You today at 2 pm EST. Today’s guests are Matthew Schutter, who was elected last year as the Penn Forest Township Auditor in Pennsylvania, and Clayton Sanford, the Orleans Parish Representative to the Libertarian Party of Louisiana State Central Committee. Click here to listen.

Shawn Levasseur Shawn Levasseur, the current Maine LP treasurer and former state party chair, is running in a special election for the state legislature next Tuesday. He is running for the state House of Representatives 93rd district seat, which was vacated by former officeholder Elizabeth Dickerson. Shawn is also on the Knox County Budget Committee, […]

Henry Herford Constable Henry Herford of Franklin Parish in Louisiana was elected to the Executive Board of the Louisiana Justice of the Peace and Constable Association yesterday. There are over 700 elected Justice of the Peace Officers and Constables and 10 districts in Louisiana. Mr Herford will represent District 4. He is the first Libertarian […]