Georgia Secretary of State Posts Petition Requirements for U.S. House Petitions

Posted on by February 20, 2022
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The Georgia Secretary of State’s website now has the petition requirements for independent candidates for U.S. House, and the nominees of parties that didn’t poll 20% of the vote for president or governor in the last election. The requirements range from 21,681 signatures to 27,703 signatures. See them here.

In the entire history of the United States, there are only six instances when any candidate completed a petition for U.S. House that required more than 10,000 signatures. The biggest hurdle ever overcome was in North Carolina in 2010, when a petition requirement of 16,292 was overcome, with the help of a very powerful union, the S.E.I.U. It had dozens of full-time petitioners who went door-to-door throughout the district.

Procedural Victory in Second Circuit in New York Ballot Access Cases

Posted on by January 27, 2022
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On January 27, Judge Beth Robinson, a judge of the Second Circuit and a Biden appointee, ordered that the New York minor party appeals already filed can be consolidated with the new similar appeal filed by the same parties. The state of New York had tried to persuade the Second Circuit not to allow the consolidation. The issue in cases 21-1464, 22-44, and 21-139, all concern the hostile ballot access changes made in April 2020. The number of signatures for the statewide petition was tripled, and the vote test increased from 50,000 to (currently) approximately 170,000 votes.

If the consolidation had not been permitted, the minor parties would have had to do a great deal of work re-submitting evidence that has already been submitted.

One set of documents concerned injunctive relief, and the other set concerns declaratory relief.

January 2022 Ballot Access News Print Edition

Posted on by January 27, 2022
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Ballot Access News
January 2022 – Volume 37, Number 8

This issue was printed on green paper.

Table of Contents

  1. GEORGIA BALLOT ACCESS HANGS IN THE BALANCE
  2. BALLOT ACCESS BILLS
  3. MINOR PARTY & INDP. CANDIDATES ON BALLOT, U.S. HOUSE, 1970-1994
  4. MINOR PARTY & INDP. CANDIDATES ON BALLOT, U.S. HOUSE, 1996-2020
  5. MINOR PARTY PARTISAN WINS, NOVEMBER 2021 ELECTION
  6. SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL

Georgia Redistricting Lawsuits for U.S. House Likely to Begin Trial on February 7

Posted on by January 26, 2022
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The three Georgia lawsuits over the boundaries of the U.S. House districts will probably have a trial beginning February 7. The three cases are Common Cause v Raffensperger, Pendergrass v Raffensperger, and Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v State. Although the three cases are not combined, they are coordinating the presentation of evidence. These cases will have a major effect on U.S. House petition requirements in 2022 for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties.