On September 1, California bill AB 469 was amended. It somewhat eases the petition in lieu of filing fees. The number of signatures for a statewide office drops from 10,000 to 7,000. The number for U.S. House and State Senate drops from 3,000 to 2,000. The number for Assembly drops from 1,500 to 1,000.
These changes had already been in the bill, but the September 1 amendment says that the petition forms will be available 60 days, instead of 45 days, before the date for filing the other (mandatory) petition to be on the primary ballot (that other mandatory petition is only 65 signatures for statewide office and 40 for district office). This is to compensate for the other aspect of the bill, which sets an earlier deadline for the petition in lieu of filing fee and abolishes the ability to get more signatures on the in lieu of petition if the first submission shows that not enough valid signatures had been turned in.
The California in lieu of filing fee petition helps reduce the amount of the filing fee, even if it isn’t completed. Every valid signature on an in lieu of petition reduces the amount of the filing fee. Thanks to Mike Feinstein for the link. The fact that this bill exists in its present form is due to skillful lobbying on the part of the Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party.
The upper signatures amount should be in constitutions — since ALL incumbent hacks can NOT be trusted especially regarding ANY ballot access stuff — and other basic election stuff — Elector-Voter and office qualifications, terms, etc.
Are you tired of huge threshold of signatures required for ballot access in single-winner pluality elections that attract mean-spirited ego maniacs, dividers, greed-heads and arrogant power-grabbers?
Now there is a new way that naturally nurtures teamwork.
You may be interested in this new unifying voting system that’s welcomed by all parties and independents around the world known as pure proportional representation.
We are not biased under a mathematically perfect entity, no advertising and no exclusionary psychogy peddled by party bosses which favor the insiders.
The United Coalition has been using pure proportional representation for more than twenty-two consecutive years and it works fine.
Nobody has is it as good as our team at the United Coalition of Candidates:
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.org