 After it first received write-in votes in 1972 for presidential candidate John Hospers and vice presidential candidate Tonie Nathan (The first female candidate for Vice President to receive an electoral vote), the LPNY has obtained at least 15,000 petition signatures
and placed statewide candidates on the ballot in every statewide election between 1974 and 2016, except 1986.These signatures were, by law, collected in a six-week period in mid-July to August (except in 1994, see "Schulz v. Williams", 44 F.3d 48 (2d Cir.1994)).