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Chicago Sun-Times: Libertarians Work to Stay on Illinois Ballot

By Jed Ziggler on July 30, 2014 11:41 AM

By Thomas Frisbie:

Brian S. Lambrecht knew the signatures he collected to get the Libertarian Party on the Illinois ballot this fall would be challenged.

But he didn’t necessarily expect he’d be accused of fraud for falsely claiming to live in the Addison home where he has in fact lived for nearly eight years — and, he points out, where he has been paying the mortgage.

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After collecting the signatures, the Libertarians had to defend them during seven eight-to-10 hours days starting July 14 before the State Board of Elections in Springfield. The party collected almost 44,000 signatures, and almost 14,000 were ruled invalid, he said. That leaves about a 5,000-signature cushion over the requirement of 25,000, but efforts to discredit more signatures are still under way, he said.

Read the full article here.

Thanks to Ballot Access News for the link.

Jed Ziggler

Jed Ziggler is a Libertarian and alternative party activist from Pennsylvania. Email news tips to [email protected]

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  1. paulie July 30, 2014

    Libertarian Party
    Posted by Jeffrey Bathe · 6 hours ago
    “Last Gasp of the Cronyist Republican Party.” #CutGovernmentAdvanceFreedom

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    http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/07/illinois-republican-party-hires-students-to-go-door-to-door-interviewing-voters-who-signed-libertarian-statewide-petition/

    The “binder check” process for the Illinois Libertarian Party statewide challenge has been finished for almost a week, and the results are that the Libertarian Party has approximately 33,000 valid signatures. 25,000 are needed. Nevertheless, the Illinois Republican Party has hired college students to ring the doorbells of voters who signed the petition, asking if the voter “really” signed the petition. The challengers to the petition are now trying to invalidate all sheets circulated by certain petitioners.

    In 1998, the “binder check” process also resulted in a finding that the Libertarian Party statewide petition had enough valid signatures, yet the party was still kept off the ballot when, afterwards, the State Board of Elections eliminated all the sheets circulated by certain petitioners.

    It is possible evidence of this activity will be brought into the pending Illinois Green Party ballot access case, which will be heard August 13.

  2. Jill Pyeatt July 30, 2014

    What a bunch of whiny losers the GOP has become. Pathetic.

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