Early and mid-December is always the best time for individuals to ask state legislators to introduce bills for the following year. There are already some states in which activists are working to get bills to improve the ballot access laws, … Continue reading
On November 3, 2015, Hartford, Connecticut, held a partisan city election. For city council, the city election law says that parties cannot nominate more than six candidates. Voters may only vote for six candidates. But the top nine vote-getters are … Continue reading
Maine requires a group that wishes to be a ballot-qualified party to have at least 5,000 registered members by December 1 of the odd year before an election year. The only group that tried to use this procedure for 2016 … Continue reading
The Commission on Presidential Debates and the other defendants in Gary Johnson et al v Commission on Presidential Debates have recently won permission to delay their Answer. The new deadline for their Answer is January 8, 2016. The Defendants include … Continue reading
On December 2, the Florida Supreme Court issued an opinion in League of Women Voters v Detzner, SC14-1905. Here is the 5-2 decision, which (including the dissents) is 127 pages long. The majority agrees with the lower state court’s plan … Continue reading
