On April 6, the Texas House Elections Committee passed HB 464, which requires candidates nominated in convention to pay filing fees. The vote was 5-1. Traditionally, in Texas, filing fees have only been required for candidates running in partisan primaries, … Continue reading
Virginia Delegate Joseph D. Morrissey, who was re-elected as an independent in a special election on January 13, 2015, wants to seek the Democratic nomination for State Senate, 16th district, this year. When Virginia parties choose to use primaries to … Continue reading
On April 8, the Oklahoma Senate Rules Committee amended HB 2181, the bill easing ballot access for newly-qualifying parties. The bill as passed by the House sets the petition at 1% of the last gubernatorial vote. As amended by the … Continue reading
The web page Restore Voter Choice has links to all the briefs filed so far in the California Supreme Court, in Rubin v Padilla. The minor parties filed their opening brief in early March 2015, and the government and the … Continue reading
On April 6, the New Hampshire Libertarian Party filed this brief, arguing that the U.S. District Court that is hearing the Libertarian Party’s ballot access case should not let the Republican National Committee intervene in the case. The Libertarian brief … Continue reading
