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 …

Libertarian presidential candidate Gov. Gary Johnson released this statement about the first presidential “debate.”

“We didn’t see a debate tonight. We saw two slightly differing versions of defending the Republican and Democrat status quo that has given us war after war after war, a $16 trillion debt, and a government that is the answer to everything.

“Nowhere was there a real plan for reducing government, balancing the budget any time in the foreseeable future, or a path that will actually put Americans back to work.

“We heard two …

Gov. Gary Johnson will host a special online event on Wednesday, October 3rd, at 6:00 pm PDT / 9:00 pm EDT, during which he will provide commentary on the presidential debate.

The event will be hosted via Google+ Hangout at http://tinyurl.com/Oct-3-Online-Event, and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/govgaryjohnson.

Gov. Johnson is challenging his exclusion from the presidential debates. His plans to share online commentary during Wednesday’s debate and during subsequent debates are subject to change should the Commission on Presidential Debates or the federal courts allow him to participate.

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Here’s a sample of the media coverage of Libertarian presidential candidate Gov. Gary Johnson’s visit to Duke University yesterday. He held a press conference in the afternoon, attended mostly by university and college newspapers, and then spoke to an enthusiastic student crowd that evening at Reynolds Theater.

The Chronicle: Libertarian Gary Johnson: Waste your vote on me

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson asked voters to waste their ballot on him in the November election.

The Technician: Gary Johnson invigorates the Libertarian vote

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson spoke Thursday …

Libertarian vice presidential candidate Judge James B. Gray will visit North Carolina Aug. 26-27 and present a lecture at two colleges in the Triad and Triangle. The topic of his presentation will be “Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It.”

The talk is based on Judge Gray’s book of the same title, which he subtitle “a judicial indictment of the War on Drugs.”

Judge Gray is a nationally known and respected author and speaker who has long advocated reform of the …