Oklahoma Representative Charles Key (R-Oklahoma City) has introduced HB 1072, which lowers the number of signatures to qualify a new party from 5% of the last vote cast, to exactly 5,000 signatures. Earlier, Oklahoma Senator Randy Brogdon had introduced a … Continue reading
On January 15, the Ohio Secretary of State ruled that parties that were ballot-qualified during 2008 will also be considered ballot-qualified for 2009 as well. Ohio has no regularly-scheduled partisan elections for federal or state office in 2009. But some … Continue reading
The Peace and Freedom Party has been on the ballot in California for all elections 1968 through 2008, except that it was off in 2000 and 2002. It has always run candidates for the legislature when it has been on … Continue reading
On January 14, the 11th circuit agreed with a U.S. District Court that Georgia may require voters at the polls to show a government photo-ID. Common Cause v Billups, 07-14664. The decision, written by Judge William Pryor (who was once … Continue reading
Just being on the ballot in a two-person race does not automatically mean that a minor party candidate will get a fairly respectable share of the vote. This is evident when one looks at the race for Delaware State Representative, … Continue reading
