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« on: August 16, 2012, 10:49:51 AM »

Johnson appeared on the GOP ballot here in South Carolina (losing to Cain Colbert among others) and we have a sore loser law that keeps the loser of one party's primary from appearing on the general election ballot, even as the nominee of another party.  Not certain if that law applies to Presidential candidates, but if it did, the Libertarians would have to place another name in place of his here.

Sore loser laws typically do not apply to presidential candidates, so that concern, at least, is probably irrelevant.
This is mostly true, but there still at least a couple of states whose sore loser laws as written seem to apply to presidential candidates. There's good precedent to indicate that such laws wouldn't hold up if challenged in court, but that would require money that the Libertarian party probably doesn't have.

While it hasn't been done to him in South Carolina (that I know of), the Michigan Secretary of State has refused to put him on the ballot and the Libertarians are suing to get him on.
They have a differant Gary E. Johnson on the ballot there Tongue
Seriously!? That's hilarious.
Gary E. Johnson of Austin, Texas, is a Libertarian Party higher-up and has consented to be the nominee of the Libertarian Party for President of the United States of Michigan if a lawsuit doesn't work (which it will, since the law hasn't changed from 1980, when the Michigan SoS said their sore loser law didn't apply to Presidential primaries and allowed Anderson to go on the ballot).
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