I greatly appreciate everyone who reads Ballot Access News blog, and especially the commenters. My google analytics program, which is supposed to tell me how many readers I have, has been broken for almost a year. So when people comment here, that is a comforting sign that there are readers. Also commenters frequently catch my errors, or my typos, or add interesting and previously unknown information, or tip us all off to news.
I also want to thank all the people who provide an income stream by becoming subscribers to the print monthly paper edition, for $18 per year. And I am really grateful to the people who donate to the Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE), via the coupon on every print issue. COFOE will be filing another amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a few days, in the California case against the requirement that independent presidential candidates must submit almost 200,000 valid signatures, gathered in only 105 days. Briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court must be printed (unless they are filed by paupers), and that costs money.
Thanks for the work you do as well.
Thanks for all you do, Richard… and all the old stamps. Half of them from your print issues never get cancelled. . And DemoRep can ramble on if that helps you out. :))
Interesting. If you put something in “<" here, it doesn't show up. Would love to have a posting guide. Is it HTML rules?
RW has been doing BAN for about 40 [40] years —
too many election law torture cases, etc. to count.
Less work for COFOE [and RW] IF correct arguments were made in the FIRST court by EQUAL ballot access plaintiffs by lawyers with SOME 14-1 EPC brain cells [esp. since 1968 Williams v Rhodes in SCOTUS] —
ie have HACK defendants do those long appeals [if any].
NON-paper BAN folks – at least shell out for the BAN monthly via snail mail.
Seeing a year of monthly BANs shows how totally corrupt and ANTI-democratic the *system* is.
@Jeff Becker…. It’s probably an anti virus mechanism to prevent cross-site attacks, or other client side code injections. Usually it’ll only catch stuff if you put actual html tags after the symbol, especially a “script” tag…. but maybe it’s set to a strict setting on WordPress.
I am convinced DemoRep’s sole purpose in life is to babble incoherently on this page.
Thanks Richard !
@JB
You can use some markup such as italics
I used to try to denote legal cases and publications that way, but if you mess up, then the whole message might be messed up.
What is the Demo Rep name even supposed to represent? Demonic Replicant? Demorphed Reptilian? Demoted Repairman? I know. Demoralizing Reprobate.
I read you everyday, Mr. Winger. Keep up the great work!
I read you blog multiple times daily and comment occasionally. Ballot access laws are arcane and convoluted, as well as stacked against minor parties. You do a great service in educating the public about these laws and to shed a little disinfectant in the form of sunlight on dirty politicians who would further manipulate these laws to further stack the deck in their favor. Thank you.
Thanks Richard. If independentvoting.org hold their New York event in 2020, hope to see you.
ANNOUNCEMENT
By James Ogle for President campaign
11/18/2019
Our First Right
http://Www.ourfirstright.org
(712) 451-0640, code 937-642
Call in to the team working to ratify Article the First tonight at 6 pm Pacific Time, 8 pm Mountain Time.
James Ogle for President campaign is bringing this item to the Unity Platform USA in 2020 as one of the “top 26” planks on the United Coalition USA.
All parties and independents working together for the good of the whole country.
The call starts with reading of Article the First.
It has been ratified by eleven states.
One elected member if any state’s legislature can bring to the floor for consideration.
Article the First would enlarge US Congress to close to 3060 members by putting a cap of 50K voters per Congressional district.
For example, if your Congressional district is composed of 325,000 voters now, then should the Article be ratified, there might be six Congressperson in that district. Elected at-large using limited voting, the six-person district would bring the mathematics of a seven-party system.
Article the First is for all of us and it will likely be strongly supported by the 100% of the United Coalition USA.
Our team is working hard to bring the Unity Platform USA to America in 2020. Please feel free to contact James Ogle to help learn more about voting by paper ballot:
http://www.allpartysystem.com/e-aps-6.pdf
Richard, thanks for your comprehensive, far reaching coverage of ballot access. Much appreciated.
Thank you for the hard work you put into this important effort. Your efforts are noticed and appreciated by many more than those of us who comment on these posts.
NON-MORONS can look up names like CATO, PUBLIUS, etc.
Hopeless situation for MORONS – esp those who were forced to go to Publik Skooools and learned ZERO about the theory of D and R — esp in govt/civics/history classes.
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PR and AppV and TOTSOP
Wrote my first comment to say thank you for all that you do, Richard, you’re an excellent source for activism on ballot access and third parties!
Thank you Richard, for all of your hard work in assembling all of this knowledge. This has been a daily check for me since I had dial up internet in the late 1990’s. Subscribing to the newsletter was a smart decision also, even though from time to time my subscription lapses. I’m happy to say that it’s active currently, and will hopefully continue to be for quite a while!
thanks to Richard and all that he does!
Thank you Richard!!! I think I have at least glanced at every post for years. Not sure which year was the first, but it may have been before the 2008 election.
Richard, I’d be happy to help fix Google Analytics. I work in digital marketing, could be a pretty easy fix. Email me if you need help.