via LNC list:
Harold Thomas, the LP Ohio state Chair, just reported that the Ohio
Secretary of State has recognized the LP as a minor party. A letter
was sent from the state’s general counsel a few minutes ago confirming
that 60,294 valid signatures are recognized.—
Elizabeth Van Horn
LNC Region 3 (IN, MI, OH, KY)
Secretary Libertarian Party of Madison Co, Indiana
LP Social Media Process Review Committee
Vice-Chair Libertarian Pragmatist Caucus
[1]http://www.lpcaucus.org/
and
To clarify, this is stage one. Ohio {GOP – p } has until Monday to file a challenge, which they may do.
But, LPOH is in good spirits after a 16 month long-haul effort, so are hopeful.
—
Elizabeth Van Horn
Anticipating court challenge from OH NSGOP. Dunno how that process works in Ohio but in other states where we have had to defend petitions from such court challenges that process requires lots of LP volunteers to go over the signatures and prove that any sig GOP disputes is in fact valid. Some places that has to be done in person in front of govt employees and in PA it has to be done in court. We may need to help recruit an army of volunteers if and when that happens.
Republicans have spent at least $750,000 that we know of to prevent our ballot access in Ohio since 2014 and we are fully anticipating they will spend more. We can hope they won’t but that would be a pleasant surprise. Let’s celebrate the win and prepare to defend it in court if and when we must.
BAN:
NY and PA petitions are going on right now. AL was cancelled but we do have some district candidates who managed to make the ballot. WA has district candidates who may advance out of the Top Two primary if that has not happened yet. Not sure about RI.
I think Richard may have forgotten about ND in that list? Also, isn’t TN running all of theirs as independents?