On August 6, Chris Anglin, a registered Republican and a candidate for North Carolina Supreme Court Justice, filed a lawsuit in state court to regain his party label. A recent law says that candidates such as Anglin cannot have their party label on the ballot if they switched parties during the last three months before filing.
Like party labels in the top-two system in California, a North Carolina judicial candidate’s party label does not mean he or she is the party nominee. There are no party nominees in North Carolina judicial races. The party label is merely a statement of how the candidate is registered.
See this story, which mentions the Anglin lawsuit as well as some other lawsuits being filed today against recent election laws changes.
Yet, wasn’t Bernie Sanders on Democratic Party NC primary ballot though he was not a Democrat? And wasn’t Donald Trump a fairly recent “convert” to Republican Party status? Could not NC have made an ex post facto law impacting their “party” identification line on ballots as well? It would seem that “self-identification” as to party affiliation has some limits. Richard, you are more knowledgeable than I on this stuff – what say you?
The North Carolina judicial races are different for North Carolina elections for federal office, state executive office, state legislature, and partisan county office. Judicial elections in North Carolina are unique in having party labels on the general election ballot even though parties don’t have nominees. So one can’t compare the two types of election.
IMO, the decision of whether or not a candidate is entitled to a party label is up to the PARTY, NOT the state.
Has 2017-2018 had ALL the gerrymander incumbent statist machinations to STOP non-Donkey/non-Elephants from getting on ballots ???
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DEADLINE date for ALL election law changes BEFORE any candidate declarations for office – circa 9 months before the ONE [general] election DAY.
aka — *regular order* — NOT the now nonstop machinations – esp. retroactive rigging of elections.
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In California, the party affiliation of candidates over the past 10 years is available on the SOS website. They should probably include it in the voter’s pamphlet.
Perhaps a nonstop 24/7 special Fed election law court in NC ??? –
ballot access, gerrymander, etc. cases.
IE more Fed election cases in/from NC than any other State since 1964 ???
@DR,
The Demo Rep candidate filed in state court.
Useless state courts are even worse than the useless USA lower courts.
The Demo Rep candidate is running for the North Carolina Supreme Court. He may not agree with your assessment of the state courts.
WHAT State Court (esp State Supreme Court) in 2018 is NOT controlled by robot party HACKS ???
See the now major spending by the left/right special interest gangs to CONTROL ALL higher courts in ALL States —
ie if can not win gerrymander legis wars, then win judic wars.
The communist/fascist brain dead media is a part of the TOTAL R-O-T in the USA —
brain dead about gerrymander math and super brain dead about the TOTAL danger of having PARTISAN exec/judic officers.
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