The National Conference of State Legislatures has this useful chart showing when each state’s legislature convenes in 2021. People who care about ballot access in their own state should be now seeking legislators willing to introduce bills to improve the ballot access laws, especially in states like Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming, all states with major ballot access problems. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
What major ballot access problem does Alaska have?
That chart is incomplete for the Mountain State. We’re recessed until Feb 10: https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bulletin_Board/calendar/calendar_2021.cfm
UNEQUAL ballot access in most States for PARTISAN offices.
About zero lawyers able to detect EQUAL in 14-1.
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Separate problems in top 2 primary areas.
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EQUAL nom pets for ALL offices —
sorry — can NOT be easier for minor party candidates.
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PR and APPV
TOTSOP
Alaska’s definition of a qualified party is way too difficult. It requires registration membership of approximately 2% of the state total. No party, other than the Democratic or Republican Parties, in any state, has as much as 2% of its state’s registration, excepting only parties that have “independent” or “independence” in their name.
Alaska was Jo Jorgensen’s 5th best state, and yet the Libertarian Party is not ballot-qualified in Alaska. Consequently is must hire paid petitioners to get on for president in Alaska in 2024. Also it does not have its own checkbox on the voter registration form, and will probably lose registrants day by day, unlike the situation in most states, in which it is constantly increasing percentage-wise.
Here is a PDF of the paper Alaska registration form
http://www.elections.alaska.gov/doc/forms/C03-Fill-In.pdf
There are NO boxes for party affiliation Question 13.
Instruction 4 on the 2nd page lists all of the current political parties and political groups.
While it is true the Alaska Libertarian Party does not have a check box, neither does the Alaska Republican Party nor the UCES’ Clown Party.
If you have any contacts in Alaska, please have them verify that the same is true for Online Registration.
Solution to presidential issue.
Require presidential candidate to personally file, with petition of 100 signatures or filing fee of $10,000. Require consent of vice presidential candidate, and elector candidates. If party affiliation is to appear on ballot, include consent by state chair of political party or political group.
There would be no limitation to how many candidates a party might endorse.
Solution to party qualification issue.
Political party has a state executive committee chosen by at least 1% of registrants or 10 persons whichever is greater. Participation may be by in-person conventions or mail ballot. Smaller organization are political groups.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/19/republican-texas-house-calls-secession-bill-anti-american/115334348/
TEXAS secession bill — one solution to RED Donkey communism ???