Gloria La Riva Files Request for Injunction in District of Columbia Ballot Access Case

On July 24, Gloria La Riva, presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism & Liberation, filed this request for injunctive relief in La Rova v District of Columbia Board of Elections, 1:20cv-01937. This is the case that challenges the number of signatures needed for a presidential candidate who uses the independent petition procedure. The requirement is 5,007 signatures. Normally the petition requirement for other districtwide partisan offices in D.C. is 3,000 signatures, but earlier this year the City Council lowered those petitions to 500 signatures, due to the health crisis. But the Board did not ease the presidential petition.

The D.C. presidential petition requires more signatures, as a percentage of the number of votes cast for president in November 2016, than any state except for Indiana. And D.C. has the second-shortest petitioning period for independent presidential petitions. The lawsuit asks that the presidential petition requirement be reduced for 2020, especially given that the city lowered the petition for all the other offices.


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Gloria La Riva Files Request for Injunction in District of Columbia Ballot Access Case — 6 Comments

  1. This site contains countless articles citing the fact that those officials elected to represent the people and those appointed by said officials invest with full vigor the suppression of the people who elected them to apparently represent them.

  2. When the hacks get behind closed doors the robotic slogans take off and the tyrant orders are made.

    Eye witness to a local semi-public hack meeting for a Prez candidate some cycles ago.

    Still impressed/shocked by robotic slogans >>> These statist NUTCASES are EVIL/dangerous

    esp for Prez since 1960.

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