The Alaska House State Affairs Committee will hear SB 161 on Thursday, April 21, at 3 p.m. This is the bill to ease the definition of a qualified party. It has already passed the State Senate unanimously. It reduces the number of registrants needed for qualified status from 3% of the last vote cast (about 11,000) to exactly 5,000.
On April 19, David Gill appealed his Illinois ballot access lawsuit to the Seventh Circuit. This is the case over the 5% (of the last cast) petition requirement for U.S. House independent candidates. It is the second most severe in the nation for that office, yet last month a U.S. District Court upheld it. Gill v Scholz.
The Utah Democratic Party state convention meets on Saturday, April 23. It will ponder whether to avoid nominating anyone for U.S. Senate, so as to bolster the chances of independent candidate Evan McMullin. See this story.
On April 19, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene asked the Eleventh Circuit to reverse the order of the U.S. District court in Greene v Raffensperger. This is the case on whether the state of Georgia should be permitted to hold an administration hearing on whether she meets the constitutional qualifications to run for Congress.
On April 18, a New Jersey state trial court restored a Democratic mayoral candidate to the primary ballot in Eatontown, even though the candidate’s primary petition was a multi-candidate petition that also included candidates running in the same primary for city council. See this story.
