Here is the cert petition in Sarvis v Alcorn, the case over the Virginia law that always puts the Republican and Democratic nominees on the top of the ballot. The case number is 16-781.
Here is the cert petition in Sarvis v Alcorn, the case over the Virginia law that always puts the Republican and Democratic nominees on the top of the ballot. The case number is 16-781.
Personally, I hate the two party system (for reasons given in my books, The New Election Game, and Internet Voting Now*). But I have to agree w/ the reasoning in Sarvis that the State acted w/in its rights to administer elections on some sort of rational basis. The summary in BAN Mr 1, 2017, p 3 leaves out what I regard as the hard lesson to be learned from this opinion (suggested in its conclusion). That is, this is really a matter that should be fought out in election campaigns, and the courts just aren’t going to rule against the two party system — Washington’s Farewell Speech etc notwithstanding. Ouch! The courts ain’t gonna help us. The only way to break the grip of the a-constitutional two party system is to convince a majority of voters that it needs to be done. That will be hard.
*Read for free at http://ssrn.com/author=1053589 (Shows how secure Internet voting can bust up two party grip)