Presidential candidates seeking matching funds must raise at least $5,000 from each of 20 states. The Jill Stein campaign reports that she has now met the threshold in ten states, and is redoubling efforts to meet the requirement in another … Continue reading
Tennessee has filed this brief in the 6th circuit, in Green Party of Tennessee v Hargett, 12-5271. This is the ballot access case filed by the Green Party and the Constitution Party in July 2011. The parties won in U.S. … Continue reading
On June 11, five candidates who were excluded from the South Carolina major party primaries filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, asking for an injunction to stop the major party primaries. The primary date is June 12. See this … Continue reading
Filing for the Florida primary closed on June 8. The ballot-qualified Tea Party, which had eighteen candidates on the ballot in 2010 for federal and state office, has no candidates for partisan office this year. In this year’s U.S. House … Continue reading
Daily Kos has this interesting and fair article about California’s election system. Equally interesting are the comments. … Continue reading
