On September 19, Chris Graveline filed this brief in U.S. District Court in Michigan, in his ballot access lawsuit. He was an independent candidate for Michigan Attorney General in 2018. He sued to overturn the requirement that he submit 30,000 valid signatures. The U.S. District Court enjoined the law, partly because no one had successfully completed the statewide independent petition in Michigan since 2004. Now the case is in the phase in which the courts will determine if the requirement is unconstitutional.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
One more chance to detect the EQUAL in 14-1 EP Cl.
If the state claims a compelling interest in placing a quota on the number of candidates which voters are permitted to choose among on the state monopoly ballot, then it is the voters whose voting rights are being abridged by the manipulation of candidates.
The solution is to end the use of quotas for the number of candidates for whom voters may choose – the open write-in ballot which contains NO candidate names and restores to voters the right they had before 1888 to vote for anyone they may damn well please.
It’s Chris Graveline, not Doug.
Thank you, Me. I just now fixed it.