Alabama Senate Unanimously Passes Bill for a Later Deadline for Party and Independent Presidential Candidates

Posted on by April 24, 2024

On April 23, the Alabama Senate unanimously passed SB 324, which moves the deadline for qualified parties to certify the names of their presidential nominees from 82 to 74 days before the November election. It also moves the petition deadline for independent candidates to the same date, 74 days before the general election. The bill can be seen here. It seems to be a permanent improvement; it doesn’t say it only applies to the 2024 election.

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Alabama Senate Unanimously Passes Bill for a Later Deadline for Party and Independent Presidential Candidates — 32 Comments

  1. Improvement is an opinion. Why should the state cater to Democrats because they are too stupid to check state laws when planning conventions?

  2. Republicans have done the same thing plenty of times, but third parties are the focus here.

  3. Early deadlines harm voters. In most democratic countries, candidates can get on the ballot just a few weeks before the election. There is no rational reason to have a deadline earlier than mid-September.

    When ballot access laws were first created, in the 1890’s, almost every state had a deadline of 30 days before the general election.

  4. Military voters is the usual excuse. They could stand up and be counted on election night, or in advance in cases where communication will be nonexistent. There’s no reason for ballots or ballot access deadlines.

  5. I’m impressed that the change benefits third party and independent candidates as well, and appears to be a permanent change.

    Is there something we are missing, or did the political establishment there not have enough time or support to design some devious restrictions?

  7. @Richard Winger

    Ed’s right though. Although it isn’t only democrats that are apparently too lazy and arrogant to file their paperwork on time.

    > Early deadlines harm voters.
    On the contrary, early deadlines protect voters. They fix the nominations well ahead of the election.

    > In most democratic countries, candidates can get on the ballot just a few weeks before the election.
    This makes me worry about which countries you consider democratic. Presumably you meant to write “undemocratic”.

    >There is no rational reason to have a deadline earlier than mid-September.
    It is intended to prevent or at least discourage bait-and-switch.

  8. That’s a good question. Which countries are “democratic” and why is that a good thing? Are we supposed to be a democracy?

  9. UNEQUAL BALLOT ACCESS LAWS FOR PARTISAN OFFICES
    MINORITY RULE EXTREMIST CAUCUSES / PRIMARIES / CONVS
    MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDERS

    USA AND ALL STATES
    —-
    SUM = MORE ROTTED MINORITY RULE MONARCHY/OLIGARCHY REGIMES — WITH STANDARD TYRANT STUFF –
    FOREIGN WARS (ESP UNDECLARED SINCE 1945) / DOMESTIC OPPRESSIONS OF MINORITIES.

    OPEN SLAVERY 1619-1865
    OPEN GENOCIDE OF AMERICAN INDIANS 1607-1890

    —
    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  11. 18 STATES STILL WITH VOTER PETS FOR STATE CONST AMDTS

    OTHER 32 — DOI II ???

    SEE GEN SHERMAN MARCH THRU GA / SC / SC 1864-1865

  12. Mike, there are no democratic countries. Democracy is mob rule and lynch law. Our founders were dead set against it.

    Pure democracy has never existed on anything like the scale of a major nation. The early greek experiments excluded women and slaves, that is most of the population. They were not particularly successful or long lasting, either. They operated at the scale of cities which were much smaller than the major cities of our modern era.

    We are supposed to be a limited constitutional republic with power divided on purpose between different levels and branches of government, most things kept out of the hands of government altogether, and most things handled at the local and state levels.

  14. Voting pets? I guess it was inevitable after voting children and illegal invaders.

  15. https://electionlawblog.org/?p=142606

    TRUMP – FAKE EC ELECTORS PLOT — MICH

    MULTIPLE FAILURES TO INDICT IN 2021.

    TRUMP SHOULD BE IN JAIL- PICK ONE – FED / MI / ETC
    —-
    IMMUNITY SHOW TOMORROW IN SCOTUS-

    CAN A PREZ KILL/MURDER 1 OR MORE SCOTUS HACKS AND BE IMMUNE ???

  18. 154 PM

    SCOTUS HACKS – PERVERSION ESP OF 1-8-1 GENL WELFARE CL AND 1-8-3 INTERSTATE COMM CL

    >>> STATES ALMOST DEAD
    —
    ELECT ALL JUDGES – NONPARTISAN — APPV

  19. Shame on Alabama for backing down. Our ancestors who shed their blood defending our soul are spinning in their graves.

  29. MINORITY MONARCHS/OLIGARCHS = TYRANTS AGST MAJORITIES AND MINORITIES– IE EVERYBODY
    —
    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  30. Democracy is particularly bad at protecting people’s rights, including the majority. It’s easy for demagogues to whip crowds into a frenzy with promises of all sorts of entitlement handouts and special interest goodies (especially with deferred payments), scapegoating of minority groups, ham handed government “fixes” for every imaginable social problem (which invariably only make them worse and create new ones), foreign meddling, etc.

    As government screws things up more and more, demagogues expand the electorate to include ever more net tax consumers and come up with more harmful junk to outdo each other – foreign wars, domestic “wars” on all sorts of things, crackpot economic schemes, inflationary games, corporate bailouts, etc.

    The masses are asses. It’s assinine to insist that democracy safeguards liberty in the face of all real world evidence. America’s founders certainly knew better than that.

  31. NOOO *RIGHTS* IN MONARCH/OLIGARCH REGIMES —

    SEE ESP WW I CENTRAL POWERS AND WW II AXIS POWERS AND POST-WAR COMMIE REGIMES.

    SCOTUS TODAY –
    WILL 5 OF 9 APPOINTED HACKS MAKE THE USA INTO AN OPEN KILLER MONARCH PREZ REGIME —

    WORSE THAN THE LENIN / MUSSOLINI / HIROHITO / STALIN / HITLER / FRANCO / MAO KILLER MONARCH REGIMES ???

    WHAT, IF ANYTHING, IS TAUGHT IN NEW AGE PUBLIK SKOOOLS ABOUT KILLER MONARCH REGIMES ???

  32. A limited constitutional republic, with powers divided between branches and levels, most matters kept out of government hands altogether, most government handled locally, and a rationally limited electorate – precisely as in the original design of the US – IS best for protecting rights. No system is perfect. The US system has evolved in the wrong direction over time.

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