Alabama’s Secretary of State gives a free list of the state’s registered voters to the qualified parties. But if an unqualified party wants the list, it must pay approximately $34,000. On January 23, the Alabama Libertarian Party filed a lawsuit in federal court, charging that it violates the Constitution for the state to discriminate. Libertarian Party of Alabama v Merrill, m.d., 2:19cv-69.
The case is based on a U.S. Supreme Court summary affirmance in 1970. A 3-judge U.S. District Court ruled that if New York gives a free list to the qualified parties, it must give the list free to parties that are trying to get on the ballot. That case was Socialist Workers Party v Rockefeller, and it was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1970. That means that the exact issue settled in the U.S. District Court is binding on the entire nation.
Since 1970, minor parties and independent candidates have won similar lawsuits against Arizona, California, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Oregon. The Alabama case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Emily C. Marks, a Trump appointee.
The 2020 Alabama petition requirement for minor parties is 51,588 signatures. No party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, has been a qualified party statewide in Alabama since November 2002.
Coincidentally, United Coalition USA headed by Libertarian if California dues-payer James Ogld has firmed up a team for US President with Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza-Curry [Green] by mailing FEC Form 2 that she can file after the government at FEC reopens.
The United Coalition USA is leading the way for the Green/Libertarian(?) POTUS ticket in 2020 with the new PPR Electoral College.
How many now ZILLION court cases in the BAN mega-database ???
— with how many UNEQUAL types of subject machinations by the Donkey-Elephant ANTI-Democracy gerrymander oligarchs ???
1. Separate is NOT equal.
2. Each election is NEW.
3. EQUAL ballot access tests for A-L-L INDIVIDUAL candidates for the same office in the same area.
ANY genius lawyers on this list ???
— capable of doing THE case to END ALL the unequal ballot access JUNK since 1776 ???
$34,000 ?!? Wonder where they come up with that figure? Here in West Virginia, the statewide list is $500, MS Excel format. No freebies to any party.
Voter lists have been a matter of *national security* since at least 1860.
Official partisan lists are P-U-R-G-E lists
— see Stalin and Hitler purges in 1930s.
$34,000 is arrived at by the formula of charging one cent for each voter’s name.