Earlier this year, Nebraska changed its law so that a party petition no longer has infinite time to circulate. A petition to recognize a new party can now only start the day after a general election. Therefore, it must be completed within the period between elections. That is still a considerable amount of time. The bill, LB 285, was signed into law by Governor Pete Ricketts on May 26, 2021. The bill had many other election law provisions as well.
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This makes it more difficult, but at least they still allow more time than most states.
In a small state like Nebraska, it makes it tough to do without paying signature gatherers.
They need to stop with these stupid distractions and turn it the entire focus of the state into making the University of Nebraska football team better again.
It seems the only purpose is to prevent activists from petitioning at the polls.
That could be, however, I have petitioned in Nebraska on 5 occasions, and I can tell you that petitioning at polling places there is not so easy. Why? Because they force you to stand 300 feet away from the entrance of a polling place, which renders almost all of the polling places to be completely useless for petition signature gathering, since being forced to stand 300 feet away from the entrance makes it so you can’t talk to anyone at the vast majority of polling places in the state. Somebody ought to sue them over this, but I don’t think anyone has.