Three Important Ballot Access Hearings Set for September 25

September 25 is a day with three important ballot access hearings. The 10th circuit will hear Yes on Term Limits v Savage, to determine if the U.S. Constitution permits states to criminalize out-of-state initiative petition circulators. The 7th circuit will hear Stevo v Keith, over whether there is any state interest in requiring independent candidates for U.S. House to get over 10,000 valid signatures in some election years, but exactly 5,000 signatures in other election years. And a U.S. District Court in Jackson, Mississippi, will decide whether Brian Moore’s paperwork (to be on the ballot for president) should have been accepted. He submitted the paperwork at 5:10 p.m. The election law only specifies the day of the deadline, not the hour (many other states specify some particular hour on the deadline day). But Mississippi said he was ten minutes too late.


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