Now that the 2020 presidential election is mostly over we can start looking at what choices voters will have in 2022. Libertarian nominee Jo Jorgensen, the only candidate other than Trump and Biden whose name was on ballots for all voters, earned over 1.7 million votes. That’s a drop from Gary Johnson’s total four years ago but still well above any LP presidential campaign prior to 2016, including Johnson’s 2012 run. Other alternative parties and candidates did not fare so well, combined they achieved less than half of Jorgensen’s result. As we know, each state has it’s own election system and rules. In some states ballot access is solely determined by the presidential election result, in others it’s not even a consideration. We’ll look at each state individually to see how many options voters will have in terms of political parties, followed by a tally of the number of states where each alternative party has ballot access. Naturally, since the Republicans and Democrats have written all the rules neither are in danger of losing recognition so they are omitted from further discussion.