[Article carried by the A.P.] Campaigning mostly in obscurity, these lesser-known men and one woman, have managed to get their names on most if not all 50 state ballots. Here they are: Harry Browne, Libertarian Party: A best-selling investment writer, he's on the ballot in all 50 states. He says the Libertarians ``believe in individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government.'' The party seeks to end income tax and ``to reduce government to the absolute minimum possible.'' Browne, 63, opposes Internet censorship and supports a repeal of the assault weapons ban. The Libertarians have been around for about a quarter of a century. Their platform includes proposals to deregulate the health-care industry, privatize Medicare and Medicaid and legalize drugs. Ralph Nader, Green Party: Primary concerns are environmental, but Nader has long fought against large corporations in the role of consumer advocate. Nader's name is on 21 state ballots. The party hopes to increase that number to 30 and to encourage write-in campaigns in the remaining states. Nader, 62, plans to use his candidacy as the catalyst for starting an ``aggressive political force for the future.'' He says the two major parties have become so similar in their views that voters are left with little choice. When Nader was nominated to head the Green Party ticket, he said, ``It's time this country has a political alternative -- a progressive mainstream that defends consumers and workers against corporate welfare.'' John Hagelin, Natural Law Party: On the ballot in 47 states -- and still trying in New Hampshire, Georgia and Oklahoma -- the Natural Law Party hopes to ``bring the light of science into politics.'' Its platform includes prevention-oriented health care, renewable energy and sustainable agriculture without pesticides. The party also wants a cost-effective government with a safety net that promotes well-being, including a 10 percent flat tax by 2002. Hagelin, 42, is a Harvard-educated physics professor and one of the party's founders. In 1992 he garnered less than 40,000 votes. The Natural Law Party advocates transcendental meditation, contending it can lower the crime rate by setting up meditation groups in prisons, and can serve as a foreign policy tool by supporting groups who practice it in other countries. Howard Phillips, U.S. Taxpayers Party: Hopes to restore American jurisprudence to its ``heritage of biblical liberty,'' abolish the Internal Revenue Service and eliminate federal income taxes, capital gains taxes and inheritance taxes. Phillips' party also supports ending legalized abortion and reducing ``the reach, the grasp and take of the federal government.'' The party platform says that while the United States should be a friend to liberty everywhere, it should only invest and fight to guarantee it for the United States. Phillips, 55, supports dismantling the Education, Housing and Urban Development departments and end government support of the arts. He is on the ballot in about 40 states. Monica Moorehead, Workers World Party: Calls for tripling the minimum wage, making polluters pay for a clean environment, furthering affirmative action and ensuring equal rights for women, lesbians, gays and bisexuals. The party supports big cuts in military spending. Moorehead's party, which is on the ballot in 12 states, believes the election is dominated by the rich and considers the Workers World Party campaign an opportunity to bring working-class politics to a broad audience. It is opposed to capitalism, advocating socialism instead. Moorehead, 44, has been a leader in the party since 1979. James Harris, Socialist Workers Party: Stands for ``the struggles of the oppressed and exploited against the increasingly brutal assault by the wealthy minority the world over,'' according to the party platform. The Socialist Workers Party supports the right of Cuba to defend its sovereignty. Harris, 48, a former meatpacker in Atlanta, is on about 10 ballots. Harris criticizes the government's response to black church burnings, airline safety and labor unions. The Socialist Workers Party accuses the major presidential candidates of continuing ``their war preparations in response to the increasing world disorder, using threats or military force from Cuba to Liberia, from China to Korea, and by backing the Israeli regime's brutal assault on Lebanon.''