January 17, 2026 - Libertarian Party of Ohio

Jan 17 2026

Volunteer as an Election Observer for the May 5th Primary

Party News / By Michael Sweeney / January 17, 2026 / 2 minutes of reading

The Libertarian Party of Ohio is recruiting volunteers to serve as official election observers for the May 5 primary election. Election observers play a limited but critical role. Observers are appointed by political parties to watch the conduct of voting at early vote centers, Election Day precincts, and county boards of elections. The purpose is […]

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That’s not democracy. That’s gatekeeping.

The Toledo Blade’s latest editorial on the 9th Congressional District makes one thing painfully clear: they still see voters as chess pieces, not people. Once again, the Blade dusts off the tired “spoiler” narrative — the idea that Libertarians exist only to sabotage whichever major-party candidate the paper prefers. That mindset exposes the real problem: