Comments

News Story Explains Why Petitioning is Substantially More Difficult Recently — 10 Comments

  1. I read the article. Some good points. I have never been an advocate of petition signatures. I think it sucks. Pay a filing fee and keep it simple.

  2. ALL circulators and signers going on more PURGE lists ???

    Thus – more fake sigs felony stuff.

    see esp 2022 Mich Elephant Guv candidates – many felony fraud sigs

    [NOOO filing fees for top offices — Guv, USA Senator / Rep.]

  3. Some solutions:

    1. Filing fees
    2. On-line E-signatures
    3. Allowing parties to nominate directly to the ballot by caucus or convention.
    4. Cut the number of signatures.
    5. Use a hard number of qualifying signatures, rather than a percent that changes every election.
    6. Make it harder to challenge signatures; better that a candidate get on the ballot with some bad signatures, than the voters be given too few choices.

  4. Petitioners appear in person at courthouses with voter ID. This permits voters to be checked immediately and avoids the problem of fraudulent signatures.

  5. ONE person ballot access forms – noms / issues.

    4.25 x 5.5 inches — internet / junk mail / etc.

    NO fraud circulators.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.