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On May 26, the Illinois Senate Rules Committee passed HB 723, the bill to make it more difficult for ballot-qualified parties to nominate someone after the primary is over.
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On May 7, the New Mexico Libertarian Party, and the New Mexico Green Party, jointly filed a lawsuit in federal court against many ballot access laws, regulations and impediments. Woodruff v Herrera, cv-09-449. The case was assigned to Judge William … Continue reading
On May 26, U.S. District Court Judge Stephan P. Mickle, a Clinton appointee, struck down Florida campaign finance laws that force groups that spend money to discuss candidates in various types of written or electronic communications to register with the … Continue reading
All briefs are now filed in Kurita v State Primary Board of the Tennessee Democratic Party, pending in the 6th circuit. Here is the Democratic Party’s brief and here is Senator Rosalind Kurita’s reply brief. The issue is whether the … Continue reading
Mississippi’s Secretary of State, Delbert Hosemann, will try to get an initiative on the 2010 ballot to require voters at the polls to show photo-ID. Mississippi has had the initiative process since 1983, but in all those years, only one … Continue reading