On June 22, Level the Playing Field, Peter Ackerman, the Libertarian Party, and the Green Party, sued the Federal Election Commission in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The case asks that the FEC be required to consider the rule-making petition that Level the Playing Field filed nine months ago over presidential general election debates. The case was assigned to Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, an Obama appointee. It is styled Level the Playing Field v FEC, 15cv-961.
UPDATE: here is the Associated Press story. FURTHER UPDATE: here is a New York Times mention of the lawsuit. The New York Times snidely added that over 300 people have said they are running for President. It is unfortunate that the New York Times reporter didn’t say that in the entire history of the United States, there has never been a presidential general election with more than 7 candidates who had enough presidential elector candidates to theoretically be elected by the Electoral College.
Who in Dumb City is bringing up the ANTI-Democracy minority rule math of the Electoral College ???
About 30 percent of the voters have been electing the various left/right robot Prez hacks since the Civil War.
— using the ratio of Winning Votes / ECV.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Best wishes on the suit. I glanced over the legal papers posted on the LP website and realized what a lot of work had to go into preparing and filing the suit.
I don’t see this specifically mentioned in the complaint, but one issue I think would be significant to the plaintiffs is that the Commission on Presidential Debates requires third party candidates to poll 15% to get into the debate … yet most polls don’t even specifically ask about third party candidates.
I hope the attorney for this case, Alexandra Shapiro, is a bulldog who takes down the CPD and the FEC.