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Robert C. Sarvis has a lot to say. He has many ideas that he wants to share with voters — ideas that, no matter what you make of them, could shake up the state of politics.

For example: Sarvis wants to open the borders and allow immigrants to migrate freely. He wants to deregulate health care, and he supports legalizing marijuana for recreational use. He wants the U.S. to stop using military force in the Middle East.

But Sarvis’ problem is that without a forum and a megaphone to present his ideas, hardly anyone will get to hear them.

The former software engineer, teacher, lawyer and new-media entrepreneur from Northern Virginia is a candidate for the U.S. Senate. He has gathered 19,000 signatures from registered voters — 9,000 more than he needed to meet the requirements that put his name on the ballot.

And after his 2013 gubernatorial bid, which got him 6.5 percent of the vote, he is widely considered a rising star in the Libertarian Party.

But as a third-party candidate, he has been excluded from the crucial, widely covered debates that put candidates in the spotlight. And Sarvis says that is because his major-party opponents, Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., and Republican Ed Gillespie, don’t want him there.