On March 31, the Eleventh Circuit denied Georgia’s request for a rehearing in Green Party of Georgia v Kemp, 16-15880. This is the case filed in 2012 by the Green Party and the Constitution Party, against the requirement that their presidential candidates submit approximately 50,000 valid signatures to be on the ballot for president. The parties won the case in U.S. District Court in 2016, and won again in the Eleventh Circuit earlier this year.

The Georgia legislature now really has no reason not to examine the various ballot access bills that were introduced earlier this year. This case is one of the most significant ballot access victories in the last few years.