This newspaper story from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, describes the second day of the trial in Libertarian Party of South Dakota v Krebs, the U.S. District Court lawsuit over minor party ballot access in South Dakota.
The story has a slight factual error toward the end. The petitions for members of qualified minor parties to get themselves on the primary ballot is due March 29, not May 29.
Here is a story (published a day earlier) in the same newspaper, the Argus Leader, describing the first day of the trial.
Richard writes:
“The story has a slight factual error toward the end. The petitions for members of qualified minor parties to get themselves on the primary ballot is due March 29, not May 29.”
Isn’t there another mistake in the same paragraph? Most minor-party candidates can’t be nominated by convention, but most *statewide* minor-party candidates can. The only statewide candidates forced to petition for primaries under current law are candidates for governor, U.S. senator and U.S. representative. My understanding is that this is the basis for our equal-protection argument, but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Also, the same paper ran this fairly in-depth article on Monday before the trial. It mentions my 2002 and 2016 nominations for the U.S. Senate, but it strictly adheres to the Argus Leader’s policy of never publishing my name (ha ha):
http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2018/02/05/judge-decide-if-sd-election-rules-too-hard-third-parties/307921002/
Every election is NEW.
EQUAL ballot access test(s) for ALL candidates for the same office in the same election area —
hundreds of moron ballot access lawyers since 1968 —
Williams v Rhodes