The Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE) will hold its annual board meeting on July 14, Sunday, in New York, at 339 Lafayette Street, third floor, at 1 p.m. COFOE was formed in 1985 and is a loose coalition of most of the nation’s nationally-organized minor parties, plus other groups that support fair treatment for minor parties and independent candidates.
COFOE recently made a contribution to the legal costs for the ongoing Alabama ballot access lawsuit. Previously COFOE helped fund the appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the lawsuit over whether election officials must tally votes for declared write-in presidential candidates. Unfortunately the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear that case.
All of COFOE’s income comes from contributions from people like you. COFOE members receive a free subscription to the printed Ballot Access News.
ANY COFOE plans to do a PROPER lawsuit about —
1. Equal ballot access — since each election is NEW.
2. Equal legislative body elections – to have each legislator get elected by an equal number of votes — i.e. attack ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymanders in ALL 50 States.
— or just more of the same old LOSING cases using the same old bad/wrong arguments ???
# 1 – Given its very limited budget, COFOE does a superb job!
If the Supreme Court would apply Baker v. Carr across State lines — that is, require that Federal H of R districts contain no more individuals than the population of the least-populous State, it would be much easier for non-Establishment candidates to win.
Jeff D.
@3 – another solution would be to increase the size of the house and establish federal ballot access rules for federal elections, preferably with VT, MS or TN as the model!