Alaska Representative Max Gruenberg (D-Anchorage) has introduced HB 288, which would make it easier for a minor party to gain recognition as a qualified party. It changes the number of registered voters a party needs to be recognized from 3% … Continue reading
The Texas Green Party will make a substantial effort to get itself on the Texas ballot this year, according to this story. Only once has the Texas Green Party successfully completed the Texas petition, in 2000. The party polled enough … Continue reading
The Delaware House passed HB 245 unanimously back on June 29, 2009. It will soon receive a hearing in the Senate Insurance and Elections Committee. Among other things, it increases the number of registered voters to qualify as a political … Continue reading
Although U.S. District Court Judge Roslyn Silver issued a tentative ruling on January 15 in the Arizona public funding lawsuit, suggesting that part of the program is unconstitutional, she still has not decided on just how much of the program … Continue reading
The Durango, Colorado Herald of January 17 has this story about the pending lawsuit against a Colorado law that keeps independent candidates off the ballot if they have been registered members of a political party during the 17 months before … Continue reading
