The 2012 election has two major victories for the Libertarian Party. First, in North Carolina Barbara Howe got two percent of the vote for governor, thus securing the party’s ballot access for another four years.

N.C. State Board of Elections Vote Summary

Second, Gov. Gary Johnson achieved an historic one million votes for president, beating the 32-year old record of 921,128 set y Ed Clark in 1980.

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Johnson’s vote total also more the double that of the 2008 ticket of Bob Barr and Wayne Root.

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Barbara Howe, Libertarian candidate for governor, fulfilled her pledge to run 5ks in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties today in Raleigh. Joined by local Libertarians she ran a 5K course in downtown Raleigh, beginning at the Legislative Building and ending in front of the Governor’s Mansion.

She had invited the other two gubernatorial candidates to join her, but neither Dalton nor McCrory attended. At the end of the run, Howe held a  press conference and rally.

“This 5k run was the fastest time of all the …

Libertarian N.C. gubernatorial candidate Barbara Howe has announced her support for a pardon of innocence for the group known as the Wilmington Ten, nine men and one woman convicted of arson and conspiracy in 1972. They served nearly a decade in prison before a federal appeals court overturned the conviction for prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.

Barbara Howe

“The evidence that has been revealed over the years since the convictions paints a very gloomy picture of the North Carolina judicial system,” said Howe. “The recanting of witness …

On the Record: Barbara Howe

Libertarian Barbara Howe goes “On the Record” with WRAL News about running for governor of North Carolina as a third-party candidate.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/video/11607347/#/vid11607347

The North Carolina Association of Broadcasters excluded Libertarian candidate Barbara Howe from their first gubernatorial debate, broadcast from the taxpayer-funded UNC-TV studios in Durham. Howe was excluded despite the fact she’s ballot-qualified and polling as high as nine percent, quite an accomplishment for a third party candidate.

Howe said she believes North Carolina voters deserve to have the full picture when submitting their ballots this November and the NCAB did a great disservice to the public but not inviting her. So in response, she’s posted a …