Plainfield resident Dan Reale said he expects to be on the ballot this November as the Libertarian Party candidate for Congress in Eastern Connecticuts 2nd District.

Reale, who is also chairman of the Libertarian Party of Connecticut, has collected 2,606 signatures, more than the 2,440 required, he wrote in an email recently. He has submitted 1,660 of those signatures to the office of Secretary of the State Denise Merrill.

Reale also said he expects former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party nominee for U.S. president, to be on the Connecticut ballot in November. Johnson is expected to have 12,000 signatures by Aug. 8, more than 7,500 valid he needs to get on the ballot. The party has submitted 2,300 signatures to Merrill on behalf of Johnson, Reale said.

Reale ran as a write-in candidate for Congress in 2008 and 2010 because of difficulty in getting signatures validated. The Libertarian Partys 2008 presidential nominee, former Georgia congressman Bob Barr, was not on the Connecticut ballot that year.

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Plainfield Libertarian expects to be on congressional ballot