The Buffalo (New York) News has now published two letters to the editor, condemning the 2020 ballot access law that made it far more difficult for minor parties and independent candidates to appear on the ballot.
Here is a letter from Martin Babinec.
Here is the letter from Howie Hawkins.
Iran holds a presidential election on June 18, 2021. Four candidates are on the ballot. Also, thirty-two other candidates applied but were rejected. When a candidate is rejected, no public statement is released that gives the reason. See this wikipedia article.
The North Carolina Board of Elections is in the process of converting all the registered Green Party members, and all the Constitution Party members, to independents. The Board is not asking these voters for their opinion in the matter. The parties didn’t poll enough votes in November 2020 to remain on the ballot, but the Board had said if they complete their 2022 party petitions by mid-June 2021, they could keep their registrants.
Very few states don’t allow voters to be registered members of unqualified parties. Generally when a party goes off the ballot, election officials don’t disturb their registrants, even though the state often stops putting their registration tally on the state elections website. Other states that do erase registrants when parties go off the ballot are Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Rhode Island. In Oklahoma, when a party goes off the ballot, it loses its registrants but is then free to re-register them even though the party is not ballot-qualified. See this story.
Georgia held two special legislative elections on June 15. Here is a link to the results.
The Pennsylvania state elections office, in response to a freedom of information request, has released the number of write-in votes cast for Howie Hawkins for president in November 2020. The various counties that tallied write-ins say there are 1,282 such votes.
