Posted on 09/01/2005 4:54:43 PM PDT by freepatriot32
The Libertarian Party announced Wednesday that it plans to file a lawsuit challenging the State Board of Elections’ decision to drop the party’s official status in North Carolina.
“We’re tired of being treated like second-class citizens,” said Thomas Hill, state party chairman.
Hill said North Carolina has one of the most restrictive ballot access laws in the country and said even Iraq has more parties on the ballot.
“That’s just vulgar,” he added.
The state board decertified the Libertarian Party on Monday because the party failed to secure at least 75,000 signatures on a petition needed to remain on the ballot. The state reported that the Libertarians had secured only about 25,000 signatures.
IN MOORE — Moore County Elections Director Glenda Clendenin is waiting for instructions from the state board before proceeding with local action.
At latest count, there were 103 Libertarians registered in Moore County. The county has 24,246 Republicans, 17,306 Democrats and 11,204 unaffiliated registrants.
Clendenin expects that the state will require county boards to notify local Libertarians by mail that the party has been decertified and that they have the choice of registering as Republicans, Democrats or unaffiliated.
Statewide, there are about 13,000 registered Libertarians.
However, relief was on the horizon Wednesday, when the state House of Representatives passed legislation that would make it somewhat easier to secure ballot access.
Known as the Electoral Fairness Act, the bill would reduce the number of signatures needed to retain a place on the ballot from 2 percent to 0.5 percent of the total votes in the gubernatorial and presidential races. Rep. Paul Miller, a Durham Democrat, introduced the bill, which must be approved by the Senate.
I demand more for a country born in liberty and stolen by politicians. If you're voting your principles and ambitions for your country, and are blindly voting Republican, that's sad for our country. If you're not voting your principles, that's sad too.
People who cave in and vote Republican just because it's easy are making it damn difficult to fix the problems. That's where the OldBob Doles, Lincoln Chaffees, Olympia Snowes and similar RINOs come from - they're grateful for the blind support and no demand for accountability.
"Do Libertarians believe in a God? I know some of them believe in Pat Buchanan."
Most believe in God but I don't know any who believe in Buchanan. He is an idiot....
I was under the impression they believe they are God. LOL
I haven't seen any evidence of that.
Kinda like syphilis is better than lung cancer.
Think that clever term up all by yourself?
Is the article about taking away their rights as citizens? Or is it about their wanting to share prominence they haven't earned with two parties who have earned it?
I commented on the latter, you seem to be faulting me for something I never said about the former.
Read slowly, type slower.
Dan
When you can't argue the points, just make up lies and knock them down.
"Is the article about taking away their rights as citizens? "
Thats exactly what it is about. Unconstitutional ballot laws that take away the rights of citizens to vote for who they want to vote for.
Ah! Then we disagree.
Is it also un-Christian to disagree with you?
Dan
Oh brother.
Every citizen is equal in this case! Every citizen has the right to form a political party which, if 75,000 or more signatures appear on a petition, may appear on the ballot. The same standard applies to every citizen. Quit your crying about unfairness. The Libertarian party simply doesn't have the numbers to meet the statutary requirements.
Then work to get the statute changed legitimately! Don't pull a DemocRAT, demand-judicial-activism-for-my-cause stunt. It will only damage your credibility.
One of the most fascinating things about Libertarianism is their foam-at-the-mouth hatred for the Jewish state. They sound like the Nazis and this may be no accident. The anti-Semitism of the Nazi Germans was extremely vicious and special, perhaps, because of the sexual perversion of the Nazi hierarchy themselves (read the Pink Swastika).
The Libertarian party is the party of perversion, as the Objectivists so rightly call it, so they're like the Nazis that way and in their hatred of the Jews -- manifested with their foam-at-the-mouth hatred for Israel.
Maybe the authors of the Pink Swastika, Lively & Abrams, can do a commentary on the Libertarian party, too. Maybe I'll write to them about it. >>>>veg<<<
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