Greensboro, North Carolina Columnist Condemns North Carolina Ballot Access Law

Doug Clark, columnist for the Greensboro, North Carolina, News-Record, has this column criticizing North Carolina’s strict ballot access law for independent candidates.

North Carolina this year requires more signatures for a statewide independent than any other state except California. North Carolina requires 85,379 valid signatures. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for the link.


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  1. In the case of elections for federal offices, why is there not a standardized procedure across the states? Separate is not equal.

  2. Ballot Access News was created in 1985 in order to promote a bill that had been introduced in Congress that year to establish a federal ballot access standard. The bill was reintroduced in many later sessions of Congress, by (in time order) John Conyers (D-Michigan), Tim Penny (DFL-Minnesota), and Ron Paul (R-Texas). The only year it got a vote on the House floor was 1998, when Ron Paul used a parliamentary procedure to get a floor vote. It only got 69 “yes” votes. The last time Ron Paul introduced it was the Congressional session of 2007-2008.

  3. We need a standardized standard for federal offices to ensure no state requires federal candidates require any more than that certain amount. I am very much so a state’s right person, but the US Constitution (Article 2, Section 4) gives the authority to the Congress to do this, however some of our ignorant members of the house, though they will bend and break the Constitution for their own selfish desires and legislation, try to claim that the Constitution does not give this authority but that is only the State’s right. Not true, my own rep, Congressman McHenry claims this same thing. We need a standardized federal signatures count for a maximum.

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