Indiana State Senator Greg Walker has again introduced his bill to ease ballot access for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties. It is SB 571. It lowers the statewide petition from 2% of the last Secretary of State vote (now 44,934 signatures) to exactly 4,500 signatures. That figure is what candidates need to get themselves on the primary ballot of the major parties, if they are running for President, Governor, or U.S. Senator.
The text of the bill will be available next week. Thanks to Craig Marolf for this news.
No statewide petition in Indiana has succeeded (under the existing 2% law) since 2000. Indiana is one of four states in which Ralph Nader never got on the ballot, even though he placed third in three presidential elections, 2000, 2004, and 2008. The other such states were Georgia, North Carolina, and Oklahoma, all of which have eased their ballot access laws since Nader last ran.
Well, once more is known, I’ll do what I usually do and contact my representatives. I mean, my state senator voted for it last time, so hopefully his position hasn’t changed.
Every election is NEW.
EQUAL ballot access tests for ALL individual candidates for the same office in the same area-
nominating petitions or filing fees.
Difficult only for SCOTUS morons who can NOT detect EQUAL in 14 Amdt, Sec. 1
MP Nader agreed to have his name remain in the USA Parliament in 1995 after I wrote him (and about 35 of the 125 names nominated) and his office also wrote me twice saying he wasn’t a candidate for political office.
Then about six months later I read in BAN that he was running for POTUS but he never bothered working with United Coalition USA again since 1995 and his name still retains a seat on our PPR Electoral College.
Eliminate partisan nominations and exclusionary partisan primaries and the problem is resolved.
NO primaries.
Ad Hoc partisan nominating petitions.
Electors-Voters can elect clubby *party* folks separately via snailmail / email
— like other PRIVATE groups.
Candidate/incumbent replacement lists.
Mr. Mahoney, which State Senator?
My state senator is Republican Andy Zay, Craig.
James, the Constitution Party in Indiana is planning on emailing people in an effort to organize efforts to talk about the legislation with the general assembly. Please email ConstitutionPartyIN@gmail.com if you want to be sent that email.