After failing to convince Oregon election officials to bar Libertarian candidates from running for office, the state Republican Party is turning to Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum for help in its attempts to disqualify several minor party candidates.
I’ll be the first person to explain how the math on third party candidates doesn’t work out, but I’m really not into this “blocking them from the ballot” thing. Whether it’s the Dems with Cornell West and the Green Party or the Republicans with the Libertarians and RFK Jr.
The only time someone should be blocked from the ballot are situations where you have to do signature gathering and either don’t submit enough valid signatures or submit fraudulent signatures.
RFK Jr. is an independent, iirc he was considering running as a Dem before that. The Libertarian candidate this go-'round is Chase Oliver.