North Carolina Green Party Has Enough Valid Signatures to be on Ballot for 2022 and 2024

Posted on by May 31, 2022
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The North Carolina Green Party has collected the needed 13,865 valid signatures to be on the ballot for 2022 and 2024, according to this news story. This is the highest petition requirement that any state Green Party has met since 2016, when it overcame the Illinois requirement of 25,000. Thanks to Chris Cole for the link.

This is the first time the Green Party has ever successfully petitioned in North Carolina. It never appeared on the ballot in that state until 2018, and it was on the ballot in 2018 and 2020 because of a 2017 law that put all parties on the ballot automatically if their presidential nominee had been on the ballot in at least 35 states in the preceding presidential election.

In North Carolina, when a party gets on the ballot in a midterm year, it is also automatically on the ballot for the following presidential year.

U.S. District Court Tells Ohio to Use Legislative Districts Chosen by Ohio Redistricting Commission

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On May 27, a 3-judge U.S. District Court ordered Ohio to use legislative district maps that had been chosen by the Ohio Redistricting Commission, even though that plan had been rejected by the Ohio Supreme Court as an unconstitutional gerrymander. Here is the opinion in Gonidakis v LaRose, s.d., 2:22cv-773.

The vote is 2-1. The legislative primaries will be held on Tuesday, August 2. Independent candidates for the legislature have until August 1 to submit their petitions. The majority decision is signed by Judges Amul Thapar and Benjamin Beaton, Trump appointees. The dissent is by Judge Algenon Marbley, a Clinton appointee.

Article Says Enough Democrats Participated in Republican Primaries in 2022 in Georgia and North Carolina to Influence Outcome

Posted on by May 31, 2022
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This article presents data to show that enough persons who had voted in Georgia in Democratic primaries in 2020 voted in the 2022 Republican primary, and caused Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to win his primary outright.

It also shows that enough Democrats in North Carolina changed their registration to “Republican” so as to vote in this year’s Republican primary and cause the defeat of Congressman Madison Cawthorn.

Georgia has open primaries, in which there is no registration by party, and any voter is free to choose any party’s primary ballot.

North Carolina has partisan registration. Independents can vote in any party’s primary they wish, but party members can only vote in their own party’s primary. Therefore, party-switchers must re-register in advance of any primary.

Dr. Mehmet Oz Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Block Third Circuit Ruling on Ballots in Which Voter Forgot to Date the Outer Envelope

Posted on by May 31, 2022
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On Monday, May 30, Dr. Mehmet Oz asked the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to file an amicus brief in Ritter v Migliori, 21A772. This is the case in which the Third Circuit used the “materiality” portion of the federal Voting Rights Act to rule that Pennsylvania ballots in which the voter forgot to add a date to the signature should still count. The Third Circuit ruling noted that all postal ballots receive a date-stamp when they are received.

Here is the proposed amicus, which doesn’t even discuss the federal Voting Rights Act, and which says that allowing such ballots might interfere with the recount currently underway in the May 2022 Republican U.S. Senate primary. The amicus also says that allowing such ballots (all of whom concern a general election for local office in 2021) would confuse the voters.

May 2022 Ballot Access News Print Edition

Posted on by May 30, 2022
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Ballot Access News
May 2022 – Volume 37, Number 12

This issue was printed on tan paper.

Table of Contents

  1. IOWA MARCH PETITION DEADLINE STRUCK DOWN
  2. NEW HOPE FOR GEORGIA BALLOT ACCESS LAWSUIT
  3. BALLOT ACCESS BILLS
  4. ILLINOIS BALLOT ACCESS LOSS
  5. RANKED CHOICE VOTING BILLS
  6. LEGISLATIVE NEWS
  7. MONTANA GREEN PARTY ON BALLOT
  8. PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES
  9. U.S. SUPREME COURT WON’T HEAR ALABAMA CASE ON VOTER LIST
  10. NEW YORK SUED OVER OUT-OF-STATE PETITIONER BAN
  11. DEMOCRATS WIN AGAINST ARIZONA ON BALLOT ORDER
  12. DECISIONS STRIKING DOWN COUNTY DISTRIBUTION PETITION REQUIREMENTS
  13. DECISIONS EASING PETITIONS WHEN NORMAL PERIOD IS NOT AVAILABLE
  14. 2022 PETITIONING FOR STATEWIDE OFFICE
  15. ALASKA SPECIAL ELECTION WILL TEST NEW TOP-FOUR SYSTEM
  16. OREGON INDEPENDENT GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE HAS BIGGEST WARCHEST
  17. PENNSYLVANIA SPECIAL ELECTION
  18. NO DEMOCRAT IS RUNNING FOR U.S. HOUSE FROM SOUTH DAKOTA
  19. UTAH DEMOCRATS WON’T RUN ANYONE FOR U.S. SENATE
  20. NEW YORK DEMOCRATS DECIDE NOT TO SET UP A NEW PARTY
  21. POLL SHOWS SUPPORT FOR A CENTRIST INDEPENDENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
  22. SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL