On March 5, the Montana Green Party submitted its petition for party status. See this story. The Green Party hasn’t been a qualified party in Montana since 2004. Jill Stein was on the ballot in 2016, but she used the independent presidential petition procedure, which permits a party label. Both the party petition and the independent presidential petition require 5,000 signatures.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Hmm — the article says the petition has to be certified before next Monday to allow candidates to file for the 2018 ballot. How does that hold up in court, Richard (or anyone else)?
It is very likely the deadline is unconstitutional. March petition deadlines for new parties, or deadlines later than March, have been thrown out in Alabama (1991), Alaska (1990), Arkansas (1977), Idaho (1984), Indiana (1983), Kentucky (1991), Maryland (1978), Massachusetts (1984), Nebraska (1977), Nevada (1986), New Jersey (1997), Ohio (2006), Pennsylvania (1984), South Dakota (2018), Tennessee (2012), and Wyoming (1984).
When will ANY lawyers and judges detect *EQUAL* in 14 Amdt, Sec 1 — for ALL election stuff ???
TOTAL MINDLESS idiocy since Williams v Rhodes in 1968 — now a mere 50 years ago.
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Separate is NOT equal.
Every election is NEW.
EQUAL ballot access tests for each separate office.
Way too difficult for the many decades of really stupid and dangerous M-O-R-O-N-S on all sides doing ballot access cases ??? Duh.