Less than five months away from the general election in November, Libertarians in Indiana are more confident than ever that they can disrupt the long-time two-party stranglehold on Indiana’s political landscape.

“I think we’re going to break some records,” said Indiana Libertarian Party chairman Evan McMahon on Indy Politics. “I think we’re going to win more seats than we’ve won before.”

McMahon said Libertarians have the most active county offices in the party’s history. Right now they have 54 county-level Libertarian Party offices across the state. One of the main messages of Libertarians in this election cycle is that Republicans should not have a sense of security over their majority in the state legislature.

“Incumbency is strong here in Indiana,” McMahon said. “If you’re already elected you’ve got over a 90-percent chance of being re-elected. If you are really unhappy, don’t push the straight-ticket button.”

McMahon contests that Hoosiers are growing more unhappy with Republicans, especially with how things have been dealt with when it comes to inflation. He added that this is leading to a voter turnout problem with many Hoosiers feeling like their voice is not being heard by the current crop of state legislators.

The primaries saw voter turnouts as low as 5 percent in some places such as in Elkhart County back in May.

However, Libertarians will soon have a bigger beef with how the state runs its elections. McMahon said the party plans to sue the state once the general election is complete over the state’s requirements for political parties to hold publicly funded primaries to choose party candidates in the general election.

“We’ve often talked about political parties not using taxpayer money to endorse their candidates, and select their candidates,” McMahon said. “I hope it’s a fight we get to have come December.”

McMahon said they will only file the lawsuit against the state if Libertarians get more than 10 percent of the vote in the Secretary of State’s race. By law, any political party that gets more than 10 percent of the vote for State Secretary of State in the previous election, must hold a public primary in the next election cycle.

Libertarians are not a fan of this and feel political parties should be allowed to hold private conventions to select their candidates for office. That’s what Libertarians have been able to do all along so far since they have received less than 10 percent of the Secretary of State vote in years past.