Last year the Ninth Circuit struck down Montana’s unequal distribution requirement for petitions to create a new party. Montana Green Party v Jacobson. That decision is now reported, at 17 F.4th 919 (2021). The fact that the decision is now in the Federal Reporter makes it easier to cite, in future cases challenging other unequal distribution requirements. Arizona and Iowa are the two remaining states that still have county distribution requirements for petitions for new parties, or for independent candidates.
Unequal distribution requirements for statewide petitions for minor parties and independent candidates have also been struck down in the last 52 years in Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wyoming.
Failure for decades and decades to indict hacks and put them in jail
18 USC 240-241 — in addition to civil cases to bankrupt them.
@RW,
Why shouldn’t legislative districts have equal numbers of voters?
Legislative districts do have equal numbers of voters in Montana and most states. The problem with the Montana law was that it required an unequal of signatures in each district, varying from 55 to 150. The law was completely irrational.
@RW,
The average (mean) house district in 2020 had 6036 presidential voters.
The maximum was 10,225 or 69% greater than average.
The minimum was 3,230 or 46% less than average.
The maximum was 3.17 times the minimum.
The standard deviation was 22.2% of the mean.
Only 19 districts were within 5% of the mean.