Oklahoma Senator Lonnie Paxton (R-Tuttle) has introduced SB 1038. It says that if a candidate has family income below the federal poverty level, he or she may get on the ballot with a filing fee that is one-fourth of the normal amount of the filing fee. Alternatively such a candidate can get on the ballot with a petition of one-half of 1% of the registered voters in that jurisdiction. Thanks to E. Zachary Knight for the link.
A discount coupon to access the ballot is discriminatory. Abolish all ballot access quotas and use an all write-in ballot format like the Federal Absentee Write-in Ballot (form 186).
Taxation is theft and ballot access is censorship.
How many New Age folks have really BAD printing or writing skills ???
This aint the good/bad olde days before 1860s typewriters — when such skills meant something.
See the now infamous 2010 AK USA Senate Murkowski write-in saga —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Alaska,_2010
I wonder how often people living below the poverty level actually win elections.