The Minnesota Senate State and Local Government had been scheduled to hear testimony on SF 1827 on Tuesday, February 28. However, the hearing was cancelled at the last moment. In anticipation of the bill, though, a press conference organized by minor parties got some publicity. See this story.
The bill would have stiffened the definition of a qualified party from a group that got 5% at either of the last two elections, to 10%.
UPDATE: the news story has a link to a video of the press conference, which is worth watching. It lasts about 35 minutes.
Very good in Minnesota, but not good enough. Allowing any ballot censorship percentage is like trying to limit slavery to only a small percentage of the population instead of abolishing it. It is sad that none of the speakers advocate for total abolition of ballot access servitude. Why should any percentage of voters be banned from the voters choosing them?
The all write-in voter verifiable receipted ballot frees the voter to chose and know their choice has not been manipulated and aborted.
Why should there be a ballot at all? What’s wrong with a standing count???
Seeing how my state, New Mexico, is seeing efforts to enact very similar legislation, I can’t help but wonder if this is some quasi-organized (I’m looking at you DSSC and Elias Group) effort, a la a Democrat version of ALEC in play??
Dylan is right!!