Arkansas State Senator Trent Garner (R-El Dorado) has introduced SB 163. It increases the petition requirement for new or previously unqualified parties in Arkansas from 10,000 signatures, to 3% of the last gubernatorial vote, which would be 26,746 signatures for 2020.
The Arkansas party petition was 3% of the last gubernatorial vote between 1977 and 2006, and in all those years, no group successfully completed the party petition. The Reform Party tried in 1996 and failed, but then went to court and won a lawsuit against that law, and was put on the ballot.
The legislature ignored the 1996 court decision, as to the number of signatures, so in 2006, the Green Party sued and won the new lawsuit. The legislature then lowered the petition requirement to 10,000 signatures. The 2006 case was Green Party of Arkansas v Daniels, 445 F.Supp.2d 1056.
Senator Garner is an attorney, so he should have known about the precedents. The bill has an emergency clause, saying “It is found by the General Assembly that the current laws concerning the signature requirement are insufficient to reflect the will of the voters of Arkansas.” This is an absurd statement, given that the only party that used the petition in 2018 was the Libertarian Party, which polled 2.90% for Governor, and for the two statewide races with no Democrat, polled 27.65% for Auditor and 29.11% for Treasurer. The Libertarian vote for Treasurer was 250,943 votes.
The top statist Communists and top statist Fascists want NO opposition.
IE — just Civil WAR II – to get PERMANENT CONTROL.
See 1941-1945– Stalin v Hitler — about 35 million dead on Eastern Front.
Basic destruction of Europe.
Support should be 0.1% of previous gubernatorrial vote, which would be 892 persons, who would gather at the capital and courthouses to demonstrate their support.
The United Coalition USA might be based in Arkansas in the near future and so we are interested in the developments. We are working on the United Coalition USA and Arkansas is in a central-USA location. The is more than a 50% likelihood that our team will be based in Arkansas.
The United Coalition USA
“Bring the three-party system in 2020”
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc-p7-usa.html
Both major parties are conspiring to minimize the impact of independent and third party candidates in 2020. They are both determined to make the 2020 election a referendum on Trump.
All ballot access laws are political censorship and judges without mens rea should declare them unconstitutional.
See also: https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2017/04/d-frank-robinson-censorship-the-state-monopoly-of-ballot-printing/