On July 1, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signed HB 4488. It moves the petition deadline for independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, from June to May. It also shrinks the petitioning period from 90 days to 60 days.
On July 1, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signed HB 4488. It moves the petition deadline for independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, from June to May. It also shrinks the petitioning period from 90 days to 60 days.
Moving the deadline up does not injure ballot access, but shrinking the petition period does. The whole 90 day period should have been brought forward.
Thanks JB. I can tell you really care about democracy.
A democratic democratcy is when Democrats rule totally and completely by consensus. At that point, everyone is, like, um, totally happy, LOL! Democrats RULE!
Comrade Ny,
You don’t understand what democracy is. It should be spelled Democratcy. It’s when Democrats win. Unless you weren’t being sarcastic. Then we totally agree!
For over 100 years the constitutional deadline for any candidate to appear on the ballot was election day when the voter put the name on the ballot. But that was before censorship was accepted as pillar in structuring a fascist police state without a constitutional amendment revoking the power of the voter to choose.
Abolish all ballot access laws.
Comrade Robinson,
For over a hundred years, a majority of human beings in the USA, including all wombpersons, original Americans, gender and sexual minorities, the vast majority of African Americans, many Latinos, and many others were not treated as human. Please take that into account when you glorify those times and denigrate the progressive accomplishments made since then, and those yet to be made
MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDERS IN ALL STATES SINCE 1776 AND IN THE USA REGIME SINCE 1789 –
THUS ALL THE ANTI-DEMOCRACY JUNK SINCE – LAWS / REGS / COURT CASES / ETC.
GOVTS OF/BY/FOR THE MONARCHS/ OLIGARCHS — AKA SPECIAL INTEREST GANGS
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Comrade Z
That’s right! That’s why we need a government by, for, and of the Democratic Party. Everyone who opposes the Democratic Party opposes democratcy, which is the new and improved spelling of democracy!
GOOD LUCK IN NEW D WORD INTO STANDARD DICTIONARIES.
PERHAPS INTO A NEW AGE POLITICS DICTIONARY — FOR TROLLS / MORONS / EXTREMISTS ???
Comrade Z,
It’s the same old word. We’re just giving the spelling to make it more clearerer, LOL. Dictionaries are, like, so cute and old fashioned and adorable! Like, relics from the past!
@Nuña
If an earlier deadline does not injure ballot access, why do courts seem to enjoin them more than any other ballot access requirement?
Anyway, let’s see if short windows like in Illinois and New York get overturned…
How do they injure Ballot access?
Because the courts are a joke. Obviously, if the petitioning window is shrunk that injures ballot access, but if the whole window brought forward, ballot access is not injured, voters are guaranteed sufficient time to research all candidates and candidates are given enough time to slip up, show their true mettle and have the skeletons in their cupboards exposed. No last minute shenanigans, move the whole process forward.
If anyone disagrees on that point, why do you disagree?
EQUAL ballot access laws for all candidates for the same office in the same election area –
nom pets/ filing fees.
Q,
Weather is less favorable in Illinois before May. People who come into Illinois to gather the bulk of those signatures have a harder time working outdoors in that weather. Fewer people want to go up there for that (or work outdoors trying to get people to stop and fill out papers when they don’t have to even if they’re from there, which is usually a small percentage of signatures gathered).
Regardless of how dedicated volunteers or pros are, fewer people are out and about and wanting to stop to sign petitions. Many events where a lot of signatures are gathered don’t happen until weather gets nice. If you get a building entrance somewhere that has sufficient foot traffic and doesn’t run you off, people are more apt to run from vehicle to building and back and not want to stop.
To make up for this, paid petitioners might cost more.
On the other hand. Donors are less apt to donate early, so it’s harder to come up with the funds to pay them.
Many candidates haven’t even decided to run at the start of the shifted period. If they have, they have not kicked their fundraising and volunteer mobilising into gear. Or, they are awaiting a party nomination convention, etc.
There are many reasons early deadlines have been rejected.