On January 19, eleven West Virginia Delegates, all Republicans, introduced HB 2552. It sets forth detailed rules for the special gubernatorial election this year. It provides that the three qualified parties should nominate by primary, held on May 14. It sets the general election for August 6. Independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, must submit a petition of 1,766 signatures by April 28. Candidates who do not wish to pay the filing fee need a petition in lieu of filing fee that must be signed by 1,740 signatures. Here is the text of the bill.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
Separate is NOT equal
Brown v. Bd of Ed 1954
— even in WV created by the Union Army in 1863 from a part of VA.
Richard,
How much is the filing fee? Also the bill seems to indicate that for anyone “having no party affiliation” (2)(W) that a petition is required PLUS a filing fee…
Darryl,
Petitioning for ballot access and petitioning to waive the filing fee are not mutually inclusive. Even if a minor party/independent candidate is successful in submitting enough signatures to secure ballot access (1766 for this special governor), the same filing fee as Republicans, Democrats, and Mountain (Green) party candidates pay ($1740) applies. However, that fee can be waived if enough signatures (one per dollar) are collected on a separate waiver petition (1740 req’d per this new legislation). Hope this helps.
BTW, this legislation and it’s access laws IDENTICALLY mirrors, numbers and all, that as what I used to secure ballot access for U.S. Senate last summer. Only difference is that I only had a month to collect them. Here there are almost three months.
Jeff,
The way the article is written and the way the law is written, I was confused. That does help, thank you.