{"id":12239,"date":"2010-03-17T16:25:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T16:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/how-does-a-libertarian-candidate-get-placed-on-the-ballot-does-the-lp-have-a-primary\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T16:25:03","slug":"how-does-a-libertarian-candidate-get-placed-on-the-ballot-does-the-lp-have-a-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/how-does-a-libertarian-candidate-get-placed-on-the-ballot-does-the-lp-have-a-primary.php","title":{"rendered":"How Does a Libertarian Candidate Get Placed on the Ballot? Does the LP have a Primary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Chris Spangle, Executive Director of the Libertarian Party of Indiana<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>The Libertarian Party of Indiana is a unique political party legally in Indiana. It is the only party considered a \u201cminor political party\u201d because it has garnered more than 2% in the Secretary of State race. Because it has not yet achieved 10% in the Secretary of State race, the party does not hold a primary which is reserved for \u201cmajor political parties.\u201d Primaries are often incorrectly assumed to be elections for the entire voting public. They are actually considered closed party business in the eyes of election law. Republicans, Democrats, and Independents cannot participate in the other\u2019s business. Only Republicans should choose Republican candidates for a general election and the same for Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpin.org\/node\/867\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Spangle, Executive Director of the Libertarian Party of Indiana The Libertarian Party of Indiana is a unique political party legally in Indiana. It is the only party considered a \u201cminor political party\u201d because it has garnered more than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/how-does-a-libertarian-candidate-get-placed-on-the-ballot-does-the-lp-have-a-primary.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}