On January 27, 2010, Georgia Secretary of State Brian P. Kemp announced the creation of the Elections Advisory Council, which was to hold hearings around the state and seek citizen input on improvements to the election laws. The Council’s report is expected sometime in the next five weeks. There is some reason for cautious optimism that the recommendations will include easing Georgia’s ballot access laws.
The Georgia ballot access laws for statewide office are so severe that no one has succeeded in using the minor party statewide petition since 1996, and no one has succeeded in using the statewide independent petition since 2000. The requirements for minor parties and independent candidates for U.S. House are so difficult, no one has ever used them since they were toughened in 1964. Even during the period 1943-1964, when the petition was 5%, but the state did not check the signatures, did not require a filing fee, did not require notarization, and had an October deadline, no minor party candidate for U.S. House ever qualified.
Does a New Age Gen. Sherman (of 1864-1865 fame or infamy) have to march thru GA and liberate it again — from its tyrant robot party hacks ???
Some of the results of the efforts of Gen. Sherman and Gen. Grant — at the cost of MAJOR death and destruction —
13th-14th-15th Amdts
Separate is NOT equal.
Brown v. Bd of Ed 1954
NOT brought up in the many MORON SCOTUS ballot access cases since 1968 -including the now infamous Jenness case in 1971 from GA.
Good news!: The sincere effort to turn around poor governing that Independent candidate Jeff Anderson began in 2010 is continuing with his serious in-Party exploratory of a 2012 run in Georgia’s 11th Congressional District. Perhaps finally a canididate campaigning for ballot access reform from WITHIN the system! Find him on Facebook (“Jeff Anderson for Georgia”) and Twitter @JA4Ga.
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