The Georgia deadline to register to vote was October 7, 2024. The same day, some Georgia voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit to extent the deadline for a week, due to hurricane Helene. Georgia State Conference of the NAACP … Continue reading
Richard Winger
Late on October 7, Cornel West filed this brief in West v Pennsylvania Department of State, w.d., 2:24cv-1349. This is the ballot access case that he had filed on September 25. … Continue reading
On September 25, Cornel West filed a federal ballot access lawsuit in Pennsylvania. It argues that the election code does not really require petitioning candidates for presidential elector to file Candidate Affidavits. It also says that if the code does … Continue reading
On October 7, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Rust v Morales, 23-1369. This is an Indiana case filed by a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, against a law that barred him from the primary ballot law. The law … Continue reading
Delaware law defines a qualified party as a group that has registration membership of one-tenth of 1% of the state total. The Green Party lost its qualified status in 2022 because its registration dipped. But during September 2024, it increased … Continue reading