National Journal has this article about the difficulty for candidates for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, especially those who are trying to get on a primary ballot, because of the weather. The primary petitions are due February 27.
Unfortunately, reporters for even the best-quality publications (Boston Globe, National Journal) never mention that Massachusetts is among the strictest states in the nation for primary ballot access. Nor do any of these articles ever mention there is a bill pending in the legislature to ease the requirements. Nor do the reporters mention the considerable body of case law that says petition requirements in special elections must be eased when the normal length of petitioning is not available.
How about a separate BAN website about the LAW of ballot access for the MORON media with their 1 second attention spans — and others — the super MORON ballot access lawyers and courts, etc. ???
Yeah Richard!! Why NOT!!!!!?????
1&2: Why would the major news media even care, they’re practically the Democrat and Republican parties’ propaganda machines? The only somewhat major news network/paper/etc that I know of that would care is very likely already familiar with much of ballot access law, that network being Democracy Now.
I think the goal ought to be to tell more people about Ballot Access News, at the grassroots level. Richard Winger’s already doing an outstanding job as it is. Perhaps someone should tell Amy Goodman about BAN, if she doesn’t know already.