Montana Green Party Files Brief in Ninth Circuit in 2018 Ballot Access Case

On November 13, the Montana Green Party filed this reply brief in the Ninth Circuit in Montana Green Party v Stapleton, 20-35340. This is the 2018 lawsuit against the unequal Montana distribution requirement for the petition to recognize a new party. The law requires a varying number of signatures from each of 34 state house districts. The districts are all approximately equal in population, yet the law requires 55 signatures from some districts and 150 in other districts, and varying numbers in-between for still other districts.

Unequal distribution requirements for statewide petitions are unconstitutional under a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court opinion, Moore v Ogilvie, and such unequal distribution requirements have been struck down over the years in Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wyoming.


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Montana Green Party Files Brief in Ninth Circuit in 2018 Ballot Access Case — 9 Comments

  1. GIANT failure to indict / convict / jail /fine all sorts of hacks since 1969.

    ONE result — the Trump case machinations in 2020.

  2. Unity Platform USA Marked Paper Ballot Totals 2020
    Eight valid votes cast so five tics (5/8ths) approve item(s). Total 8 votes cast (five of eight = simple majority approved)
    https://www.allpartysystem.com/e-aps-6-totals.php
    Updated on 11/12/2020

    Approved

    5,4,16,19,8,4,19,2 Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) (8 tics, sum 77)
    6,14,6,17,4,2,19 Bill of Rights for Voting Equality. (7 tics, sum 68)
    7,5,7,21,1,17,17 Simultaneously pay down the USA deficit while spending is limited to within
    the budget after the resolutions for paying the deficit have been attained. (7 tics, sum 75)
    15,9,8,24,6,9,9 The Supreme Court decision to allow states to prohibit write-in voting in any election (Burdick v Takushi)
    must be challenged and reversed and the state monopoly of the ballot must be repudiated. (7 tics, sum 76)
    9,15,13,20,2,18,18 Eliminate income taxes for all US citizens and repeal the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (7 tics, sum 95)
    1,1,28,35,5,26,26 New WTC-7 Investigation (7 tics, sum 124)
    14,12,23,28,10,24,24 Term Limits (7 tics, sum 135)
    4,2,18,18,15,15 Opposite gender #1 and consecutively ranked alternating genders thereafter with voluntary opt-in (6 tics, sum 72)
    16,11,26,16,12,12 Ratify Article the First (6 tics, sum 93)
    11,17,21,23,14,14 Ballot Anti-censorship Act (6 tics, sum 100)
    8,10,22,32,16,16 Uniform definition of Elector in ALL of the USA. (6 tics, sum 104)
    7,17,3,6,6 Secure All U.S. Borders (5 tics, sum 39)
    8,9,7,8,8 Cut Spending, Cut Military, Simplify and Repeal all Stupid Laws (5 tics, sum 40)
    18,2,12,4,4 Universal Basic Income (5 tics, sum 40)
    10,3,12,13,13 Reduce income taxes for all US citizens (5 tics, sum 51)
    16,10,5,22,22 Voting Reform (5 tics, sum 75)
    2,20,20,15,20 Repeal the 17th Amendment of the US Constitution (5 tics, sum 77)
    4,33,9,21,21 Universal Rent Control (5 tics, sum 88)
    12,5,22,29,29 Equal Rights Amendment (5 tics, sum 97)
    13,24,25,23,23 Immediate Labeling of All Foods (5 tics, sum 108)

  3. JO –

    REAL Democracy election reforms will take care of other stuff.

    PR and AppV — pending Condorcet
    TOTSOP

  4. A LAWLESS terrorist threat by the BAN resident troll MORON ???

    CA state cops and FBI/HS notified ???

    LOTS of Donkeys willing and able to put lawless MORONS in jail –

    see Mich MORONS under arrest – pending trials.

  5. A call for legal incarceration, trials and executions. Alert who you want because it will happen, resident troll idiot. LOTS of Patriots willing and able to put lawless donkey demonRAT IDIOTS in jail and execute them slowly and painfully in public LEGALLY. Michigan HEROES will be freed and finish what they started. I am a FLORIDA law enforcement officer and I will enforce executions.

  6. Lawless Murders for opposing regimes —

    direct from Pre-history Stone Age monarch / oligarch killer / looter regimes — Hitler 1934 purge / Stalin 1936-1939 purges.

    See USA Const – 1-9/1-10 Bans on bills of attainder and ex post facto laws.

    2nd Amdt remedy for lawless killer regimes — BLOW THEM AWAY – esp stooge hacks impersonating *law* folks.

    Bunker Hill / Saratoga / King’s Mountain / Cowpens / etc.

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