On Monday, March 8, at 2 p.m., the Elections Subcommittee of the Georgia House Government Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on HB 1141, one of the Georgia ballot access reform bills. HB 1141 lowers the statewide candidate petitions (both … Continue reading
Ohio is holding primaries this year for six political parties, including the Constitution, Green, Libertarian and Socialist Parties. Candidates in those primaries need 25 signatures to get on the primary ballot. Ty Collinsworth is a college student trying to run … Continue reading
Morgan Bruce Reeves, an independent candidate for Governor of South Carolina, says he has collected the needed 10,000 valid signatures to be on the ballot this year. Assuming he gets on, and also assuming that independent gubernatorial candidate Joe Schwarz … Continue reading
On February 26, the U.S. Supreme Court asked Massachusetts to respond to the cert petition in Simmons v Galvin, 09-559. Generally, if one side asks the Court to hear a case, and the other side doesn’t bother to respond, the … Continue reading
Carl Romanelli, the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania in 2006, has this op-ed in the Citizens Voice of March 6. The Citizens Voice is the daily newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylania. The op-ed points out that U.S. Senator … Continue reading
