The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this article about the Georgia restrictions on U.S. House candidates, and that the Libertarian Party has asked the Eleventh Circuit to strike them down. Despite the dramatic nature of Georgia history, the Journal-Constitution has traditionally given very little attention to ballot access for U.S. House, so the article is welcome.
Any AJC report of a New Age Union Army going to liberate Georgia from its New Age ballot access tyrants ???
14-1 EQUAL
If you are otherwise qualified to hold a particular office, I think that 1,000 petition signatures should be the maximum required for a Congressional candidate. A political party should be able to registered itself and put forth a slate of candidates with no more then 5,000 signatures. I do not plan on voting for an Independent or minor party candidate, but ballot access reform is paramount to having regular, free and fair elections.
DB–
INDIVIDUAL candidates are on ballots —
a BASIC item that MORON lawyers and esp SCOTUS hacks have NOT detected since 1968 – Williams v Rhodes.