Alabama requires a petition of 3% of the last gubernatorial vote for a new or previously unqualified party, or a non-presidential statewide independent, to get on the ballot. No one has completed a statewide 3% Alabama petition since 2000, except that Americans Elect did the petition in 2011 but then didn’t run any candidates.
For 2020 and 2022, the petition is 51,588 signatures. The Alabama Libertarian Party has just begun to circulate that petition for the 2022 election. It is due in May 2022.
No other state requires such a high percentage of signatures for statewide non-presidential ballot access, if each state is compared using its easiest method (party or independent).
Hope they collect three or four times the required number. Not only do gub’mint thieves hate competition, but they hate work and it takes lots of real work to check the signatures. Make ’em COUNT THEM ALL!! I believe that was one of the factors which led to West Virginia cutting theirs in half from the 2% figure after petitions from the Constitution, Green (Mountain), and Libertarian parties in ’08 had county clerks across the state all in a sweat.
…and Nader. Libertarians started too late and didn’t get enough in on time here in West Va in ’08. Constitution Party submitted 22,000 raw signatures, so if Libertarians got half, that would have been something in the neighborhood of 80,000 signatures that were checked for four prez candidates.
What century will ANY minor party get a lawyer with brain cells able to detect EQUAL in 14-1 as applied to INDIVIDUAL candidates for each office ???
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NOO party hack pets.
NOOO primaries, caucuses and conventions
EQUAL individual nom pets
PR legis and AppV exec/judic — pending Condorcet with AppV tiebreaker.
TOTSOP
I thought they were starting at the polls on election day, which is tomorrow, 11/3/20, or at least this is what it sounded like on their website.
There is no reason to gather 3 or 4 times the number of signatures, especially if you are not doing a gerrymandered district petition, and if you are doing a gerrymandered district petition, the best way to do it is to go door-to-door with a walk list of registered voters.
I have gathered petition signatures in Alabama several times, and I never had a problem with validity.
If the petition succeeds, how long would ballot access be assured, and what is the vote test for retention?
I have no life
Alabama is the worst. Not only is 3% tied for the worst petitioning requirement, but ballot retention is 20%! One other state has 10% and no other state is above 5% and almost all are at 3% or less. It is worth noting that until 1971 there where no barriers to the ballot whatsoever in Alabama. That shows just how much of a rearguard action this whole fight for ballot access really is.
I was born and raised in Alabama myself, I have many relatives there, mostly related to my sister.
Unfortunately Google’s “click the search” brought a one-party voting system and Facebook followed with more one-party and two-party voting systems like thumbs up and approval voting (AppV) polls.
My team ran in 1996 and filed records of the correct math as proof (Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system) before Google registered my name in 1997.
If there are any legal specialists and programmers familiar with 1992 to 1994 Usenet (used the program DOS), we need to find the Usenet records from 1997 so please be sure to contact me if you have legal and programming skills.
When Google did that it destroyed independent politics and independent businesses by bringing super-majority one-party voting systems worldwide.
We will ask USA Justice department to find those records from that time, they were maintained by military, as privatization had not started until around 1996.
http://www.pprelectoralcollege.com
Maybe if third parties campained real hard in states like Alabama they could keep ballot access in these states.
Alabama requires a party to have a candidate for statewide office to get at least 20% of the vote in order to retain ballot access. That’s a tall order, especially if the two establishment parties prioritize prevention of any two-candidate races for the alternative party.
Wow. If you have to start a petition this early, that is a pretty clear indication that it is way to large a number.
And the 20% retention require is obscene.
20 pct due to SCOTUS HACKS in Jenness below — 1971 — mere 49 years ago.
TOTAL magic that ALL 50 minority rule gerrymander States have not [yet] copied GA law.
Williams v. Rhodes, 393 U.S. 23 (1968)
Jenness v. Fortson, 403 U.S. 431 (1971),
American Party of Texas v. White, 415 U.S. 767 (1974),
Munro v. Socialist Workers Party, 479 U.S. 189 (1986),
Norman v. Reed, 502 U.S. 279 (1992) and
New York State Board of Elections v. Lopez Torres, 552 U.S. 196 (2008).
Armies of USELESS MORON lawyers / worse party HACK judges not noting ***EQUAL*** in 14-1 Amdt.
Nobody cares.
Their website says they need 70,000 raw signatures which would require about a 75% validity rate. Sounds rather ambitious.