On August 6, a state trial court in Raleigh, North Carolina, set a hearing date for Monday, August 13, in the lawsuits over whether the state can prevent two judicial candidates from having their party label on the ballot. The … Continue reading
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Arizona is one of eleven states that lets state income taxpayers send a small monetary contribution to the party of the taxpayer’s choice. Ballot Access News has been tracking contributions to each party, for these states, starting in 2000. Arizona … Continue reading
On August 6, Rocky De La Fuente submitted his reply brief to the Ninth Circuit in De La Fuente v Padilla, 17-56668. This is the lawsuit that challenges the California law that required him to submit 178,039 valid signatures in … Continue reading
On August 6, the deadline, independent gubernatorial candidate Greg Orman submitted over 10,000 signatures to run for Governor of Kansas. The legal requirement is 5,000 signatures. See this story, which says that Orman relied partly on paid circulators. Thanks to … Continue reading
This article says that the South Carolina Election Commission’s spokesperson Chris Whitmire believes there is no likelihood that the Election Commission will remove James Smith, the Democratic nominee for Governor, from the November ballot. First, the Libertarian Party state convention … Continue reading
Georgia is one of the few states that votes entirely using machines that have no paper trail. This McClatchy newspaper story illustrates some obvious and serious problems with the Georgia system exposed in this year’s primaries. … Continue reading