The Maryland State Board of Elections announced on August 10 that independent candidate Neal Simon has enough valid signatures to be on the ballot for U.S. Senate. The requirement is 10,000 signatures; Simon submitted 17,000. See this story.
Simon is one of the nineteen candidates backed by Unite America (formerly the Centrist Project). He is also the first statewide independent candidate to take advantage of the 2017 liberalization of the ballot access law, which lowered the number of signatures from 1% of the registered voters (approximately 45,000 signatures) to exactly 10,000 signatures. That change was prompted by a lawsuit, Dorsey v Lamone, which received financial support from COFOE (the Coalition for Free & Equal Elections).
Perhaps he will write a play about it! 😉
Each election cycle is NEW.
EQUAL ballot access requirements for ALL candidates for the SAME office in the SAME area.
Brain ROT in SCOTUS for 50 years — Williams v Rhodes 1968
As I am related to the first and second Governors if Maryland, Benjamin Ogle and his son who hung out with George Washington, we wish him the best in his campaign and we offer to help should he deem that appropriate. The Ogle Mansion is now the Annapolis Admiral Club. The domed capital building was built in 1795, the port is where the filming of Roots took place and the whole state is rich in American historical links with the United Coalition in 2020 so we look forward to the collaboration.
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc-p7-usa.html
How many minority rule gerrymanders are/were due to JO relatives ???
Benisek v. Lamone, 17-333 from MD – JUNK Op, 585 U.S. ___ (2018)
— 1 of the 5 MORON SCOTUS gerrymander cases in 2018.
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Also — Most/all of Maryland (a border slave State) was put under Lincoln regime martial law during much of the horrific Civil War — IE to guard the major RR line NY City to DC
— along with the mass murder battle at Antietam in Sep 1862.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam
Ogle House, 1739:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogle_Hall
Maryland State Capital Building is the oldest state capitol building still in use, since 1772.
Unfortunately pure proportional representation (PPR) didn’t come around until the 1900s so early Ogle politicians did not have the knowledge about PPR which most likely could have led to peaceful alternatives to civilwar.
Now knowledge about PPR is sweeping the earth and so future civil war could be thwarted.
Richard, the Politics1.com website has three other independents listed. Do you know where they are at with their ballot access?
Steve Gladstone (I) – Computer Code Developer & ’16 Pres. Candidate
Michael Puskar (I) – Storage Facility Manager & ’16 Pres. Candidate
Edward Shlikas (I) – Retired School Facility Manager, Ex-Teacher & ’16 Candidate
Neal Simon (I) – Businessman & Philanthropist
They are almost certainly either declared write-in candidates, or people who told the State Board they would be petitioning, but who didn’t get the needed number of signatures.
C.O. beat me to it. So I’ll go with “Get ready for three months of, “His campaign managers are Felix Unger and Oscar Madison.” and “Can two divorced men share a candidate without driving each other crazy?” Cue the opening theme music.
Older folks –
Oliver and Hardy, Lewis and Martin.
JO can perhaps work on trying to get a —
“pure proportional representation” wiki —
does NOT exist at the moment apparently.
Various other PR methods DO have specific wikis.