The Georgia Secretary of State’s website now has the petition requirements for independent candidates for U.S. House, and the nominees of parties that didn’t poll 20% of the vote for president or governor in the last election. The requirements range from 21,681 signatures to 27,703 signatures. See them here.
In the entire history of the United States, there are only six instances when any candidate completed a petition for U.S. House that required more than 10,000 signatures. The biggest hurdle ever overcome was in North Carolina in 2010, when a petition requirement of 16,292 was overcome, with the help of a very powerful union, the S.E.I.U. It had dozens of full-time petitioners who went door-to-door throughout the district.
This is INSANELY HIGH for US House. I thought I had heard that the court had granted some kind of relief to ease the petition signature requirement for US House in Georgia. This is WAY too difficult.
Everyone could be advantaged if the state just charged $1/sig filing fees in place of any signatures required.