February 2022 Ballot Access News Print Edition

Posted on by March 5, 2022
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Ballot Access News
February 2022 – Volume 37, Number 9

This issue was printed on white paper.

Table of Contents

  1. ELEVENTH CIRCUIT UPHOLDS THE NATION’S MOST RESTRICTIVE BALLOT ACCESS LAW
  2. COURT PUTS MAINE LIBERTARIAN PARTY ON BALLOT
  3. NEW YORK BALLOT ACCESS BILL
  4. CALIFORNIA EASES PETITION IN LIEU OF FILING FEE FOR 2022
  5. REPUBLICAN PARTY MAY CUT TIES WITH PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES COMMISSION
  6. BOOK REVIEW: THE CENTRIST SOLUTION
  7. CHALLENGE FILED TO BALLOT STATUS OF CONGRESSMAN
  8. MOST CROWDED GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT FOR GOVERNOR
  9. MINOR PARTIES AND INDEPENDENTS IN STATE ELECTIONS, NOVEMBER 2021
  10. MINOR PARTY PARTISAN WINS, NOVEMBER 2021 ELECTION (continued)
  11. FLORIDA SPECIAL U.S. HOUSE ELECTION
  12. LIBERTARIAN STATE LEGISLATOR IN MAINE REJOINS REPUBLICAN PARTY
  13. AMERICA VOTES 2020 IS NOW IN PRINT
  14. SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL

Forward Party Will Petition for 2022 in Minnesota

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The Forward Party will petition to get its nominee on the ballot for Governor of Minnesota. He is Cory Hepola, a former radio talk show host in Minneapolis. The party also hopes to persuade Richard Painter to be its nominee for Attorney General of Minnesota. Separate petitions of 2,000 signatures would be needed for each. Petitioning cannot start until April.

The state chair of the Forward Party of Minnesota is John Denney, who was formerly an Independence Party nominee for Congress.

Libertarian Party Wins Illinois Ballot Access Lawsuit

Posted on by March 4, 2022
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On March 4, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Gettleman, a Clinton appointee, issued an injunction, directing Cook County, Illinois election officials to recognize that the Libertarian Party is ballot-qualified for all partisan Cook County office this year. The officials had determined that even though the party polled enough votes in 2020 to be ballot-qualified inside Cook County, the party could only nominate executive positions in its June 2022 primary, not county commission candidates. Here is the four-page order in Libertarian Party of Illinois v Yarbrough, n.d., 1:22cv-578.

Congressman Madison Cawthorn Wins Federal Lawsuit to Stop Challenge to His Ballot Position

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On March 4, U.S. District Court Judge Richard E. Myers, a Trump appointee, ruled from the bench at the close of the hearing in Cawthorn v Circosta, e.d., 5:22cv-50. He enjoined North Carolina election officials from permitting a challenge to the ballot access of Congressman Madison Cawthorn on the grounds that the Fourteenth Amendment, section three, bars congressional candidates who engaged in insurrection after having taken an oath to the Constitution. The judge said that when Congress passed the Amnesty Act in 1872, that suspended that part of the Constitution. That point is legally contested; the other side says the 1872 Amnesty Act just applied to the Confederate officials for their actions in the civil war.

The written opinion will be posted here when it is available.