Eric Sundwall, a leader of the New York Libertarian Party, plans to make a formal announcement of his candidacy for U.S. House, 20th district, in the upcoming special election. The seat is vacant because the incumbent, Kirsten Gillibrand, resigned to become a U.S. Senator.
Sundwall will need 3,500 valid signatures, the be collected in only twelve days. The start date has not been determined yet.
i trust the will sue for equal treatment with ballot access parties (ask for greatly reduced petition total)
If the issue of over crowded ballot is to be taken at face value, it could be legitmate, then a practical solution would be to look at this presidential election national popular vote totals and state that the top ‘x’ number of paries would have automatic or very liberal ballot access.
let us know when this petition is going to be circulated.
Good luck trying to get on the ballot. 12 days is not very much time to collect 3,500 signatures in a congressional district.
even a thousand is too high number / burden when you don’t know when to start in the dead of winter — this is not NYC on foot.