In 2017, the Georgia Libertarian Party filed a federal lawsuit against the Georgia law on how independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, get on the ballot for U.S. House. Cowan v Raffensperger, n.d., 1:17cv-4660.

After two years, discovery has finally been completed. Each side will submit briefs asking for summary judgment by May 15, 2019. The Georgia law is so difficult, no third party has managed to comply with the law since it was created in 1943. No independent has complied with it since 1964. The law requires a petition of 5% of the registered voters, which is now typically 20,000 signatures or so.

There is no other ballot access law in any state with a historical record similar to the Georgia U.S. House law. Every other state except Alabama has had minor party or independent candidates for U.S. House on the ballot in either 2018 or 2016 or both years. Alabama last had one in 2014.