Kathleen Curry, Colorado’s only independent state legislator, who is being blocked from the November ballot, expects to appeal the adverse decision in Riddle v Daley.  Curry petitioned for a place on this year’s ballot as an independent, but even though the petition has enough valid signatures, she is barred from the ballot because she didn’t leave the Democratic Party until December 2009.

The law that bars her has already been relaxed by this year’s session of the legislature, but the new, more relaxed law doesn’t take effect until 2011.