Arkansas State Senator Trent Garner (R-El Dorado) has introduced SB 163. It increases the petition requirement for new or previously unqualified parties in Arkansas from 10,000 signatures, to 3% of the last gubernatorial vote, which would be 26,746 signatures for … Continue reading
On January 24, the Delaware House passed HB 41, which moves the non-presidential primary from September to April. It also moves the deadline for a new party to qualify from August to early April. Parties get on the Delaware ballot … Continue reading
Alabama’s Secretary of State gives a free list of the state’s registered voters to the qualified parties. But if an unqualified party wants the list, it must pay approximately $34,000. On January 23, the Alabama Libertarian Party filed a lawsuit … Continue reading
Bills have been introduced in both houses of the New York legislature to make it illegal for a qualified party to have the words “independent” or “independence” in its name. In the Assembly, the bill is sponsored by Assemblymember Jeffrey … Continue reading
On January 24, California Assemblymember Brian Maienschein revealed that he has changed his registration from Republican to Democratic. He is the second state legislator this month to have made this change; the first was Maine Representative Don Marean, who switched … Continue reading
