On January 10, the Federal Election Commission published this useful chart, showing deadlines for presidential candidates to get on a presidential primary ballot, and also deadlines for independent presidential petitions.
It also has deadlines for congressional candidates. Footnote six correctly says, “In Louisiana, a congressional primary is not held.” Louisiana only has a congressional general election, and sometimes a run-off afterwards. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
My philosophy loving online friend from Louisiana Thomas Jones or another?
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/522/67/
Foster v. Love, 522 U.S. 67 (1997)
Morons in LA subverting THE USA general election Day
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-5th-circuit/1152639.html
LOVE v. FOSTER
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
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on remand from SCOTUS above.
@DR,
There is no such thing as USA general election day. Some states do hold general elections on the same date set by Congress for congressional elections.
Louisiana certainly will not be holding a general election on November 3, 2020.
They will be holding the Congressional Primary on that date. There will be a few open primary special elections as well.
§7. Time of election
The Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year, is established as the day for the election, in each of the States and Territories of the United States, of Representatives and Delegates to the Congress commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter.
(R.S. §25; Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, §6, 18 Stat. 400; June 5, 1934, ch. 390, §2, 48 Stat. 879.)
Codification
R.S. §25 derived from act Feb. 2, 1872, ch. 11, §3, 17 Stat. 28.
The second sentence of this section, which was based on section 6 of the act Mar. 3, 1875 and made this section inapplicable to any State that had not yet changed its day of election and whose constitution required an amendment to change the day of election of its State officers, was omitted.
Amendments
1934—Act June 5, 1934, substituted “3d day of January” for “fourth day of March”.
Constitutional Provisions
The first section of Amendment XX to the Constitution provides: “The terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.”
Time for election of Representatives, see Const. Art. I, §4, cl. 1.
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THE day — THE election
Difficult ONLY for Con Law MORONS – esp in LA and FL [ used to be more States ]
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§1. Time for election of Senators
At the regular election held in any State next preceding the expiration of the term for which any Senator was elected to represent such State in Congress, at which election a Representative to Congress is regularly by law to be chosen, a United States Senator from said State shall be elected by the people thereof for the term commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter.
(June 4, 1914, ch. 103, §1, 38 Stat. 384; June 5, 1934, ch. 390, §3, 48 Stat. 879.)
Amendments
1934—Act June 5, 1934, substituted “3d day of January” for “fourth day of March”.
Constitutional Provisions
The first section of Amendment XX to the Constitution provides in part: “* * * the terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.”
Time for election of Senators, see Const. Art. I, §4, cl. 1.
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Incorporates 2 USC 7 above.
Also MS MORONS —
Brain R-O-T still in some southern States.
Also per Jim, since Louisiana and Virginia elect state offices in odd-numbered years, the first Tuesday of November in even-numbered years isn’t a general election for that reason.
ONE result of the Deficit City MONSTERS.
https://treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current
12/31/19 23,201,380,134,806.70
12/31/18 21,974,095,705,790.50
2019 USA GOVT Deficit 1,227,284,429,016.20 = 1.23 TRILLION $$$$
MONEY N-O-T FOR PRODUCTIVE GROSS PRIVATE DOMESTIC INVESTMENT — N-O-T FOR JOBS, JOBS, JOBS.
WHAT MICRO-SECOND WILL ***THE ALL TIME ECON CRASH*** HAPPEN —
MAKING ALL PRIOR CRASHES BE SUPER-TRIVIAL ???
MEDIA IS USELESS / BEYOND HOPE ABOUT LIFE/DEATH STUFF.
RW item is about FEC and USA officer elections – for the hair-splitting genius folks.
State hacks can have their more and more useless State/local election days whenever —
due to SCOTUS letting the gerrymander USA Congress destroy the States
— via perversions of the 1-8 general welfare and interstate commerce cls.
See esp. Title 42 US Code.