On January 15, the Brennan Center posted a useful and interesting essay on dates by which independent voters must have changed their registration, in order to vote in 2008 presidential primaries. Of course, the article only deals with states in … Continue reading
Filing closed on January 26, Saturday evening, for the West Virginia presidential primary. Candidates needed a fee of $2,500, but no petition. The Democratic ballot will list only Clinton, Edwards and Obama. This is the least crowded Democratic presidential primary … Continue reading
The Sun-Herald newspaper of southwest Florida has this January 28 story about the fact that Florida has 30 qualified parties. A party can be ballot-qualified in Florida just by writing a letter to the Secretary of State, listing its state … Continue reading
On January 27, the Minnesota Independence Party, which has been ballot-qualified since 1994, voted to affiliate itself with the new Independence Party of America. The Minnesota party’s webpage already mentions this step. Thanks to ThirdPartyWatch for this news. … Continue reading
The TIME Magazine of January 27 has this interview with Clay Mulford. Mulford was in charge of ballot access for Ross Perot. Michael Bloomberg had met with him earlier in the month, so TIME mostly asked Mulford about what Bloomberg … Continue reading
