On October 10, the Georgia Libertarian Party filed a notice of appeal in Cowen v Raffensperger, n.d., 1:17cv-4660. This is the case over the Georgia ballot access laws for U.S. House, which require approximately 20,000 signatures for any independent, or the nominee of any party that didn’t poll as much as 20% for president in the entire U.S., or 20% for Governor of Georgia. No third party has ever completed this petition in the 76 years in which it has existed. No independent has complied with it since 1964. Yet the U.S. District Court last month still upheld it.
UPDATE: here is the party’s press release about the appeal.
This is what happens when candidacy is not given proper First Amendment protection.
ANY chance that the same olde losing lawyers will CHANGE their same olde losing arguments ???
1. Separate is NOT equal Brown v Bd of Ed 1954
2. Each election is NEW
3. EQUAL in 14-1 >>> EQUAL ballot access tests for ALL INDIVIDUAL candidates for each office in each election area — IE EQUAL PETITIONS OR FILING FEES.
THIS STUFF AIN’T ATOMIC PHYSICS.
Why do candidates, parties and voters accept ballots that are not content neutral? All state ballots are discriminatory against some candidates, parties and voters in order to produce an outcome which favors other candidates, parties and voters? Quotas, financial or otherwise, are levied to deny voters uncensored choices among candidates and parties.
This bias has been enshrined in elections laws in all states since the states claimed the power to take the right to publish ballot from citizens and monopolize it. Effectively, giving the two dominant political parties control of the ballot to suppress opposition and entrench themselves in power exclusively?
What voter, candidate or political party has directly challenged the state monopoly of ballots as unconstitutional in the courts? Why not? Do they all assume the courts are also monolithically biased in favor of the two dominant parties? Why not asked them to go on the record?
Truth may not set you free, but it may expose your chains.
(Crickets)
DFR –
Do YOU want to be the DECIPHER-IN-CHIEF person for a zillion write-in ballots with New Age BAAAAD handwriting/printing ???
Possible a mere 140,000,000 ballots in Nov 2020 with 10-50 offices per ballot ???
How many govt monopolies ??? —
LAW making ???
LAW enforcing- exec ???
LAW enforcing- judic ???
plus lots of physical stuff –
capital – roads, buildings, etc. and
personal property – cop badges, govt nukes, etc.
Demo-Rep, the ballot could include a keyboard to correct for handwriting issues. If you are worried about a paper trail each voter could get a printout of how they voted, allowing for a paper trail. Or they could choose to have it emailed or texted to them etc.
As is often the case I’m not sure I understand the rest of your comment. The multiple question marks don’t make your questions any easier to decipher. I’m sure you’ll now call me a moron, however just about everyone else commenting here has the same difficulty in parsing your comments. I presume you can write standard English sentences, and choose your own form of shorthand for reasons of your own, perhaps so you can make yourself feel superior and call everyone else morons for not understanding whatever you are trying to say?
How much time to accurately type the names of 50 persons for 50 offices at an over-heated polling place ???
Email names in ??? – with 100 percent security ???
One *private* ballot with printed names for each office ??? – those 50 offices – 50 ballots ???
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Time has run O-U-T for *regular order* stuff — due to WAY too many SCOTUS JUNK ballot access and gerrymander ops since 1964 [NOOO ??? about that], multiple UN-declared WARS, and domestic TYRANT actions by the various left/right CONTROL FREAKS.
USA, ALL STATE AND MANY LOCAL ANTI-DEMOCRACY MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER REGIMES — WITH THEIR UNEQUAL BALLOT ACCESS LAWS since 1776 — now totally EVIL and VICIOUS — esp due to the *state of siege* / nonstop *emergencies* in Devil City since 4 Mar 1933 – FDR monarch regime.
*Almost* at repeat of 18-19 April 1775 – Boston, Mass on western road to Lexington – Concord.
Church ALARM bells ringing all night – town to town — *minute men* mobilizing/assembling – marching.
TOO MANY TOP CLUELESS M-O-R-O-N-S TO COUNT — AS IN 1773-1775, 1859-1861, 1914 AND 1939 IN ALLEGED *DEMOCRATIC* REGIMES.
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PR AND APPV AND TOTSOP TO STOP THE R-O-T — [NOOO ???]