On May 2, Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller interpreted Nevada election law to mean that when the state holds a special U.S. House election on September 13, there will be no party nominees. Candidates will qualify for the ballot without regard to whether any particular party has nominated them. See this story. This will be Nevada’s first special election for U.S. House ever, so there are no precedents. Other states in which parties do not nominate candidates in special congressional elections are Georgia, Hawaii, and Texas. Those three states do let any candidate choose any party label.
Here is the Secretary of State’s schedule. It seems to indicate that the Secretary of State expects independent candidates to need a petition, whereas members of qualified parties do not. That is not logical, given that there will be no party nominees. In the other states in which there are no party nominees in special congressional elections, the ballot access hurdles for each candidate are equal and identical. But, because independents only need 100 signatures, it seems unlikely that any independent will sue. An earlier version of this post said they need 250, but the correct requirement is 100.
The Nevada schedule implies that each candidate will have a party label on the ballot.
How much made up stuff by the SOS — due to the lack of LAWS by the party hack MORONS in the NV legislature ???
The MORON SOS should have sued himself (a fool for a client) and let the courts sort out the mess.
Only having 14 days to collect signatures seems like a short window. Also seems unfair that only independents & members of unqualified parties are required to collect signatures. The number f signatures is not listed on the SOS calendar.
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Here is an idea of ballot access reform. Square root of votes is the number of signatures. If your party got 30,000 votes for a U.S. House race, all you would need is 173 signatures.
Or else, the equal ballot access proposal which means that all candidates need to get a certain number of signatures plus a small filing fee, maybe something like 200 bucks.
Hmmmm….it will be interesting to see how the results turn out. Angle?
Last year…down here in Texas we were looking forward to the special election for Senate when Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson decalred that she was going to resign to put her fulltime effort to running for Governor. Well, of course, she broke her word for the umptenth time and we were denied the free-for-all.
You forgot Washington, California, and Louisiana.