The Alabama legislature adjourns at the end of April 22. This year’s session did not pass any ballot access reform. Nor did it pass the bill to apportion the state’s presidential electors proportionately. And it did not pass any bill to set up a write-in filing procedure for declared write-in candidates.

The only pending activism to improve Alabama ballot access just now is the ballot access case appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court, Shugart v Chapman. The U.S. Supreme Court will probably say whether it will hear this case in June 2010.