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From an article by Len Lazarick published on June 22, 2011, on MarylandReporter.com:
The Libertarian and Green parties regained their official status on election ballots Tuesday after retired Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Eugene Lerner found they had collected enough signatures on petitions.…
From an article on LP.org:
On June 21, a Maryland judge ruled that the Libertarian Party had submitted enough petition signatures to gain ballot access in Maryland.…
From the Annapolis Capital (read the full piece here):
If you want to have a third party in Maryland politics, here’s the deal.
You’ll be excluded from public forums.
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Staff at LP blog:
Libertarian candidate Muir Boda, running for the Salisbury City Council in Maryland, placed fourth in the March 1 primary. He will advance to the general election on April 5.…
Maryland State Senator Edward J. Pipkin (R-Stevensville) has introduced SB 630. It clarifies that petition signatures do not need to exactly match the name of that voter in voter registration records.…
Yesterday evening, Andy Jacobs and I (Paulie) discussed harassment of ballot access petitioners, including Andy’s arrest outside a public library while petitioning to get the Green and Libertarian Parties back on the Maryland ballot.…
UPDATE: I screwed up last week and scheduled the show for 15 minutes, and Andy also was not on the call. This time I have made sure that we will have long enough for the show.…
George Phillies at Gold America Group:
Our usual sources provide us with information that we believe to be correct about LNC acts this past month.…
[Posted by Paulie]
The Maryland Green Party submitted 14,842 signatures and the Maryland Libertarian Party submitted 13,787 signatures towards a requirement of 10,000 valid signatures. The deadline for submitting additional signatures has been extended to March 7:
The Maryland petition deadline for a party that wishes to obtain, or regain, its qualified status is not until August 2012.
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