The Arizona legislature adjourned for the year on the evening of May 3. The session did not pass the Secretary of State’s omnibus election law bill, HB 2379. That bill had many provisions. One of them would have increased the … Continue reading
According to this story, anyone who signs a Texas petition this year for an independent candidate and who later votes in a partisan primary has (by the act of voting) disqualified his or her petition signature. However, the Secretary of … Continue reading
On May 2, the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ruled that over 100 candidates who filed in the Democratic and Republican June 12 must be removed from the ballot. They all failed to file a statement of economic interests. The … Continue reading
On May 3, the Missouri Senate unanimously passed HB 1236. The bill is now through the legislature. It removes the typographical error in the law that required petitions to create a new ballot-qualified party to include the presidential candidate and … Continue reading
On May 2, the Oklahoma House rejected the Senate amendments to HB 1058. HB 1058 is the bill that was introduced in 2011 in the House to ease ballot access for newly-qualifying parties. As passed last year in the House, … Continue reading
