“The Libertarian Party is expected to go to court to force the state to accept the late signatures.”
Of course they will. Their inability to follow the rules is everybody else’s fault.
Even if they accept late signatures, he was unable to even get the 4,000 required.
I would be sympathetic if the bar were set unreasonably high, or if the deadline were unreasonably early. However, .003% of the population is NOT unreasonable, and August 8 is not too early.
If they can’t deal with Maine, how are they going to do places like Illinois, PA and NY, where they know how to make ballot access difficult.