A U.S. District Court in Montana will hear Montana Green Party v Stapleton, 6:18cv-87, on January 8, Tuesday. This is the ballot access case that challenges the March 15 petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties, and the unequal distribution requirement for the petition. The law requires signatures in each of 34 state house districts, which are all presumed to have equal populations. The law violates “one person, one vote” because in some districts as many as 150 signatures are required, yet in others, as few as 55 signatures. Thus voters in the latter counties have more power than voters in the former type of districts. No other state has ever had such a peculiar distribution requirement for any type of statewide petition.