The Metropolitican News Enterprise, a Los Angeles daily newspaper covering legal news for 110 years, has a story about the October 18 decision of a U.S. District Court in Justice Committee v Bowen. That is the decision that declared California’s deadline for groups trying to qualify as parties to be too early.
California’s numerosity threshold for parties qualified to be preferred by candidates for voter-nominated offices is not legally defensible.
A responsible Secretary of State would be preparing legislation to replace Elections Code Division 7 with general requirements that a party would need to meet (based on Florida’s approach). A responsible Attorney General would inform the Secretary of State that California’s law is not legally defensible.
#1, we agree!