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Posts published in January 2017

Twenty-four Presidential Candidates Received At Least 1,000 Votes in November 2016

Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:

Twenty-four individuals who were actually running for president in November 2016 received at least 1,000 recorded votes. This does not include individuals who were not running for president in November, such as Bernie Sanders, but who nevertheless received hundreds of thousands of write-in votes, most of which were not counted or reported.…

LP to GOP lawmakers: End Obamacare’s individual mandate NOW

LP.org press release, January 19:

If the GOP is to actually keep its promise to repeal Obamacare, it needs to immediately end the law’s mandate to buy medical insurance, and immediately end any associated tax penalties.…

LNC Vice Chair: Not protesting Trump – yet

Commentary from Arvin Vohra, Vice Chair of the LNC (posted at LP.org, January 20):

This Saturday, I will not be attending the protest march on Washington, although I live only a few minutes away from that location.…

LP.org: ‘Bullies in Ohio’

https://www.lp.org/bullies-in-ohio/:

Dear Libertarian,

In Ohio, election law is the rule of the land and applied equally to all….except Libertarians.

Let me tell you more…

Last Friday, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected our lawsuit over the Secretary of State’s improper decision to prevent our ballot access.…

Libertarian in special election for VA House of Delegates

Posted by Carla Howell at LP.org:

John W. Barclay was nominated by the Libertarian Party this week to run for House of Delegates in a February 7 special election for Virginia’s 71st District, which includes downtown Richmond.…

LP warns: Cut Sessions short

The Libertarian Party warns U.S. senators to quickly reject the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for the position of attorney general.

“Jeff Sessions is preposterously unfit for the highest law-enforcement position in the land,” said Nicholas Sarwark, chair of the Libertarian National Committee.…