By Richard Winger As reported earlier, the Maine Libertarian Party is in court over whether it should be a qualified party. The law requires a group that wants to be a party to have at least 5,000 registered members by December 1 of the year before the election. The party submitted 6,700 voter registration forms showing the applicant had registered “Libertarian” by the deadline, but election officials said only 4,513 are valid. For the lawsuit, the party’s attorney asked the Secretary of State for copies of all voter registration cards that were rejected. On March 4, the attorney for …read more