Illinois State Appeals Court Rules that Objections in 2020 to Libertarian U.S. House Petition Had No Merit

On July 26, the Illinois State Appellate Court ruled that objections to the petition of Bill Redpath, Libertarian nominee for U.S. House in 2020 in the Sixth District, were not meritorious. Bixler v Illinois State Board of Elections, 2021 200458-U. Here is the 12-page order.


Comments

Illinois State Appeals Court Rules that Objections in 2020 to Libertarian U.S. House Petition Had No Merit — 16 Comments

  1. There is no legitimate state interest in ensuring that only parties with a measurable modicum of public support will gain access to the general election ballot. Neither the state nor anyone else can know what the “modicum” of support for a candidate will be when voting begins. “Modicums” are revealed by actual voting not by public opinion surveys or meaningless petition quotas months before an election and actual candidate campaigns. Instead such modicum quotas are prior censorship of voters’ freedom of choice on election days. Such obstruction of voter rights is a characteristic of a fascist state.

  2. NO *modicums* = how many zillion candidates demanding ballot access — names on ballots ???

    DFR solution = all write-ins —

    will DFR examine each write-in scribble for each office ???

    Like doing grade 1/2/3/4 handwriting tests in skoools — major deciphering ???

  3. Demo Rep, this is the 21st century. People can bring in a printed ballot. Many, probably most, folks these days, know how to print it at home or an office store themselves. Organized groups can distribute them too. Folks who insist on hand written may do so at the risk of having their vote not count. I imagine very few people would fail to deliver a printed ballot, whether they produced it themselves or took a preprinted one from the group of their choice.

  4. Newt –

    How many zillion groups with their own very special ballots ???

    How many mere majority winners for ANY office ??? —

    ie how many even worse left/right minority/plurality extremists ???

    CA top 2 type runoffs ???
    ———-
    ONE election Day
    EQUAL nom pets
    PR legis
    Appv – exec/judic
    TOTSOP

  5. Folks figured it out 200 years ago. We ought to be able to now. No government printed ballots. Let folks print their own, individually or in groups. We already have write in votes, at least in most states. So how many groups? As many as voters want to organize, including those who wish to be a group of one.

  6. BAAAADE olde days –

    party hack printers printed party hack colored ballots

    ballots were dropped in boxes in public

    — while party hacks recorded which voter and which colored ballot

    >>> lead to secret ballots and later official primaries.
    —-
    2021 *distinctive* ballots – designer shapes [ donkeys / elephants / etc. plus colors – full spectrum combos / shades ???

  7. @DR,

    How about distributing ballots along with a free lunch of a hard-boiled egg, hunk of bread, and some watered beer?

    Or folding several ballots inside each other for ballot stuffing.

    Or getting some toughs to beat up the people distributing ballots of the party. They would probably work cheaper than Marc Elias.

    Or maybe printing some fake party ballots. If the top of the ballot says Trump, is a voter likely to check whether it also say Pelosi, Schumer, and your fave Tlaib?

  8. We could go back to trials. If no candidate has a majority, have a new election a month later. After the 3rd trial, go to a 2 month interval. After the 5th trial go to quarterly.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.