On July 16, the West Virginia Senate passed SB 2001, a bill to set forth procedures for special elections for U.S. Senate. The bill passed with only one dissenting vote. The bill is deficient because it requires independent candidates, and … Continue reading
In 2009, the Pennsylvania Constitution, Green and Libertarian Parties filed a federal lawsuit against four aspects of Pennsylvania ballot access law: (1) some counties refuse to count any write-in votes; (2) the state arbitrarily refuses to tally the write-ins that … Continue reading
U.S. District Court Judge Graham C. Mullen will hear oral arguments in Greene v Bartlett on July 28, 2010, at 10:30 a.m. in the federal courthouse in Charlotte, courtroom #3. The address is 401 W. Trade Street. This is the … Continue reading
This newspaper story, published July 16, has the latest on Mary Norwood’s struggle to get on the ballot as an independent candidate for Fulton County (Georgia) Chair of the County Commission. One detail the newspaper omits is that the Fulton … Continue reading
On July 16, the 11th circuit set an expedited briefing schedule in Scott v Roberts, the case over the constitutionality of Florida’s extra public funding for gubernatorial candidates who have a privately-funded opponent with a very large warchest. All three … Continue reading
