Nevada Assembly Bill 534 has a hearing on April 10 in the Assembly Legislative Operations and Elections Committee. It would require independent candidates (for office other than president) to file a declaration of candidacy in February. It is part of an omnibus election law bill sponsored by the committee.
Such laws have been declared unconstitutional in West Virginia, Kentucky, and South Carolina. The precedents are based on Anderson v Celebrezze, which said that states must give independents a chance to get on the ballot after the major parties must identified their candidates. The South Carolina decision, Cromer v State of South Carolina, 917 F 2d 819 (1990), was a US Court of Appeals decision. The other two are U.S. District Court decisions: Kentucky’s is Sweeney v Crigler, 457 F Supp 3d 577 (2019); and West Virginia is Daly v Tennant, 216 F Supp 3d 199 (2016).
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