Brian Doherty has this article for Reason about the January 5 decision of the Eleventh Circuit concerning Georgia ballot access. UPDATE: here is the Associated Press story about the ruling.
Brian Doherty has this article for Reason about the January 5 decision of the Eleventh Circuit concerning Georgia ballot access. UPDATE: here is the Associated Press story about the ruling.
What brain stuff causes top LP ballot folks to think that LP candidates can get on ballots easier than D-R candidates ???
Note the mere $200,000 in the story.
What do you mean, easier? Just what are you smoking, and can you introduce me to your dealer?
Like stories about the 1912 Titanic DISASTER sinking.
How many investigations of UNEQUAL ballot access laws by D/R hacks and even the all knowing genius media ???
Sometimes, once held beliefs are found to be wrong after gaining more experience or collecting more data. Since the Jeness case in 1971, 50 additional years of near-total failure, by Libertarians and many others, to get 5% of voters to sign a ballot access petition, should make you challenge your beliefs.
And yet, in blindness, the State doesn’t need proof of “actual voter confusion, ballot overcrowding, or the presence of frivolous candidacies” (page 13 of the opinion) to justify their oppressive law in court. Not to mention the conflict of interest of elected officials writing ballot access laws!
Also, don’t lose sight of long-term goals like ranked-choice voting or approval voting, proportional representation, and multi-member districts that aren’t gerrymandered.
Perhaps a new tactic is needed:
Voters should own their own ballots, and be able to print their own, with their own preferred candidates, to deliver on election day.
What greater voter suppression can there be than to deprive a voter of a choice that that voter would prefer to make?