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On April 11, the West Virginia Senate passed HB 2981, the bill to improve ballot access. It had already passed the House. The bill lowers the petition from 2% of the last vote cast, to 1%. It also moves the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Katon Dawson, an official of the South Carolina Republican Party, has this op-ed in the April 8 issue of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, in support of a bill to make it illegal for primary voters to sign an independent candidate’s petition. … Continue reading
The Nevada Secretary of State’s bill to require minor parties and independent candidates to make their nominations in the first few months of an election year is now officially dead. AB 82 made no headway, and the deadline has now … Continue reading
Herb Hoffman, 2008 independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, has been trying to persuade the Maine legislature to improve conditions for declared write-in candidates. Earlier this year his bill to help write-in candidates was defeated in Committee. However, that … Continue reading
California Assemblymember Norma Torres (D-Pomona) has introduced AB 1396. It would repeal all election laws that describe how the California Democratic Party is organized. It would require the party to be responsible for its own internal organizational rules, and also … Continue reading