Tennessee Bills to Improve Ballot Access

Tennessee State Senator Mae Beavers (R-Mt. Juliet) and State Representative John Mark Windle (D-Livingston) have introduced identical bills, SB 2528 and HB 2457, to lower the number of signatures for a newly-qualifying party. The bill as introduced only lowers the petitions from 2.5% of the last gubernatorial vote to 1.5% of the last gubernatorial vote. That would drop the existing requirement of 33,816 signatures down to 20,290. That is still too high. The sponsors are open to amending the bill but wanted to get the bills introduced by the legislative deadline. Thanks to Daniel Lewis for this information.


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  1. “In re Donald J Trump”
    Open all enrollment lock boxes nationally in those states barring registered voters not enrolled in ballot access parties from participating in 2016 CINC POTUS primaries.
    Beginning with New York State 2016 presidential primary.

    Consolidated with existing original proceeding mandamus(s) seeking SCOTUS Rule 19 natural born citizen certification of question in each of the 13 regional USCAs OPs already docketed.

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