Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp appointed an Elections Advisory Council on January 27, 2011. Sometime during December, the Council expects to release its recommendations for improvements in the Georgia election laws. The final recommendation will probably be to retain the 1% statewide petition requirement, and the 5% district petition requirement. However, the recommendation will be that the percentages be based on the last presidential vote, instead of the number of registered voters.
This would cut the number of signatures for statewide petitions from 51,845 signatures to 39,245, and cut the number of signatures for U.S. House from approximately 20,000, to approximately 15,000. UPDATE: it is always possible the final recommendations will be more favorable. Activists in Georgia are working for a better recommendation.
Somewhat good news. I wish NC would give us a little relief. I would take 40,000 over the 85,000 we have now for a new party.
“This would cut the number of signatures for statewide petitions from 51,845 signatures to 39,245, and cut the number of signatures for U.S. House from approximately 20,000, to approximately 15,000.”
Even if they did this, the signature requirement for US House would still be way too high.
Agreed andy North Carolina is over 20,000 for US house. We are so close to passing a bill to lower ours.
Separate is still NOT equal.
Brown v. Bd of Ed 1954
SCOTUS – brain dead about EQUAL ballot access since 1968 – a mere 43 years of MORON ballot access opinions.
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EQUAL ballot access for ALL candidates for the same office in the same election area.
In Maine, we need to get 4,000 signatures to get on the ballot. It is so ridiculous that people living in Georgia and North Carolina need 5x as many we do!
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In Indiana about 35,000 signatures are required. We are hoping to get the 2% of the Sec. of State vote requirement to be lowered to 1/2 of 1%, making it around 9,500, much more palatable.