Libertarians Off the Ballot in Arizona

[BmorePat87]

In Arizona, it's 0.25% of eligible voters (your party plus independents). So previously, the Libertarians just had to get 0.5% of their party (which was about 125 signatures from a pool of about 25,000). Now they need to get 0.25% of their party and independents (roughly 3,000 signatures from a pool of about 1,200,000).

At the time, there were more independents than Democrats, so the Democrats requirements went up. There are more Republicans than independents, so their number went down.

These are the new updated numbers:
https://www.azsos.gov/elections/voter-registration-historical-election-data


All that said, a state party should be able to gather 3,000 signatures. That's still quite low, especially compared to similarly populated Maryland where you need like 30,000. We had a Libertarian run for governor last time and an independent run for senator 4 years ago.