Here is the column. And, thanks to Independent Political Report for giving us the heads up on this.
I wish I could be as optimistic as Colin Pascal. Legislators are slowly ratcheting up ballot access barriers. It will take more people willing to work for ballot access reform, as well as electoral changes to move away from our Single Member Plurality elections in this nation, in my opinion, which is not addressed in this oped.
FAKE NEWS
FLASH
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/04/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-ruling-louisiana/89879693007/
Supreme Court issues new emergency voting rights ruling that boosts GOP
LA VRA OP IN IMMEDIATE EFFECT = MORE 2026 PRIMARY/GENL CHAOS
FLASH
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/relatingtoorders/25
LA 5-4-26
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=155898
ELB ON LA VRA OP IMM EFFECT
TOTAL CHAOS IF SOME ELECTION LAW THING IS UNCON – JUST BEFORE AN ELECTION.
>>> SUPER- OBVIOUS REDO UNCONST ELECTIONS
LOL hill of dung
More LOL USSR YESTERDAY and the nAZi-666 spambot
If only.
Tl ; dr
Wishful non-thinking by a super extreme ultra libtard that “thinks” the demon rats are not enough far left.
“Legislators are slowly ratcheting up ballot access barriers.”
Bill, after the 2000 Election Ralph Nader posited that State Legislatures across the country will enact a plethora of new laws to inhibit the growth and Ballot Access of Third Parties through out the country. This measure are particularly nasty when a “Left” Third Party does well.
I’m not dismissing this phenomenon but in the words of Gil Scott Heron “ain’t no new things”. it should surprise no one that there are so few Socialist Parties Ballot Qualified in any state.
The 2025 Georgetown, SC election was odd in that there was no Democratic candidate, even though the Democrats swept the three city council seats. Filing was in March 2025, with the primary in July cancelled. It is unknown whether the lack of a Democrat candidate for mayor was tactical or a result of incompetence.