The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Libertarian Party of Alabama v Merrill, 21-1288, on Friday, April 22. This is the case that challenges the law that gives qualified parties free copies of the list of registered voters, but says unqualified parties who are petitioning must pay $36,000 to get the list.
On April 6, the Georgia Secretary of State filed this brief in Greene v Raffensperger, n.d., 1:22cv-1294. This is the case in which congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene seeks to stop election officials from holding a hearing on whether she meets the constitutional qualifications to run for re-election. The challengers believe she is not qualified, under the Fourteenth Amendment, section 3, concering “insurrection.”
The state’s brief insists it has a right to determine whether congressional candidates meet the constitutional qualifications.
The Georgia legislature adjourned on April 4. No election law bill except housekeeping measures passed, other than a bill to give the Georgia Bureau of Investigation original jurisdiction to investigate election law violations.
Gary Buchanan will try to get on the Montana ballot as an independent candidate for U.S. House. He is running in the Second District, in the eastern half of the state. See this story.
Montana has not had an independent candidate on the ballot for U.S. House since 1994. Montana has the most difficult petition requirement for independent candidates for U.S. House, in any state west of the Mississippi River. Buchanan needs 8,722 signatures by May 31. The formula is 5% of the winning candidate’s vote at the previous election.
On April 1, a Vermont state trial court upheld a state law that lets Vermont towns decide for themselves whether to let adult non-citizens vote in local elections. Ferry v City of Montpelier, Washington Co. Superior Court, 21cv-2963. See this story, which has a link to the opinion. The law had been challenged by several units of the Republican Party, including the National Committee.
