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<cite><span class="fn"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Ladies and Gentlemen:<br><br>This is what we are up against in terms of trying to achieve semi-permanent December ballot access in New Hampshire.<br><br> Scott Lieberman<br></font></span><b class="fn"><br>GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG<br><br><br>http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2016/02/austin-peterson-presidential-candidate-hopeful-appears-on-the-john-stossel-show/<br><br><br><br><a href="http://www.ballot-access.org" rel="external nofollow" class="url">Richard Winger</a></b> </cite><a href="http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2016/02/austin-peterson-presidential-candidate-hopeful-appears-on-the-john-stossel-show/#comment-1314142"><time datetime="2016-02-07T13:48:26+00:00">February 7, 2016 at 13:48</time></a><br><br> </header>
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<p>We need to constantly publicize that New Hampshire is not a state
that cares about liberty when it comes to vote for the candidate of
one’s choice, or to allow free competition in elections. The state has a
terrible record on ballot access and is constantly making things worse.
Remember, in 2004, New Hampshire was one of only two states in which
Michael Badnarik wasn’t on the ballot (and the other state, Oklahoma,
has since then made things better). New Hampshire is one of only 4
states that has partisan registration in which the state won’t
acknowledge that people can register Libertarian, and won’t give us a
tally. In the last 30 years, New Hampshire is the only state that has
increased the vote test for party definition (from 3% to 4%, which has
kept us from being a qualified party ever since it was passed). New
Hampshire Secretary of State is dishonest. In the litigation around the
2008 election, the state said in court that if we did the very
difficult 3% party petition, then we could have our own party column on
the November ballot. So in 2012, we did the party petition, and guess
what, the Secretary of State still wouldn’t give us a party column.
Instead he made a column for us and all other non-major party
candidates. And in 2013, to make sure we never did the party petition
again, the legislature cut our petitioning time in half.</p>
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