Independent candidate & third-party ballot access thread

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Individuals from the Libertarian National Committee have said privately they will only be on 48 states, it may be 47 (New York) and may be 46 (Illinois). There are some people I'm aware of at a state level outside of Illinois that are wanting to ensure Illinois ballot access for the party will happen.

A lot of people (including Gavin Newsom's wife) have registered American Independent Party because that is what they thought independents were supposed to do.

I'm aware. (I'm not actually aware; the only AIP I've heard of was John Anderson's.)

AIP = George Wallace, not John Anderson

[Open Source Intelligence]

Individuals from the Libertarian National Committee have said privately they will only be on 48 states, it may be 47 (New York) and may be 46 (Illinois). There are some people I'm aware of at a state level outside of Illinois that are wanting to ensure Illinois ballot access for the party will happen.

Source? And what two states do they think they will definitely not be on?

Private meeting I attended. They were not stated. New York I thought would've been brutal to start with, although it was stated separately.

They made it on all 50 and DC the last two times, although that was before the takeover

Current leadership has other priorities to say the least.

[Open Source Intelligence]

No Labels got party-level ballot access to Tennessee which is the first time since 1968 for any entity. Tennessee has a very low threshold to get ballot access, but it's for Independent candidate status with no party identifier. So every Libertarian that's ever been on the Tennessee ballot has been there as Independent.