Delaware Green Party Shores Up its Qualified Status with a Registration Drive

Posted on by March 28, 2021
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Delaware law says a party that has registration membership of at least one-tenth of 1% of the state total is ballot-qualified. The Delaware Green Party registration has increased from 716 members in November 2020, to 749 in March 2021. This increase substantially re-qualifies the party. The requirement is always changing, but currently it is 750 members.

Delaware doesn’t have special elections for legislative vacancies, so it almost never has special elections of any kind, unless it needs to hold a special election for U.S. House, which almost never happens, since it only has one seat. So it is somewhat of a moot point whether a party is qualified during an odd year. However, it is very difficult for a minor party to try to increase its registration in an election year, because for most months of an election year, it is not possible for voters to switch parties. Therefore the Green Party is wise to have done a registration drive during 2021.

March 2021 Ballot Access News Print Edition

Posted on by March 28, 2021
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Ballot Access News
March 2021 – Volume 36, Number 10

This issue was printed on yellow paper.

Table of Contents

  1. U.S. SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO HEAR NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT DEADLINE CASE
  2. MAINE WIN FOR OUT-OF-STATE PETITIONERS
  3. NEW YORK BALLOT ACCESS LOSS
  4. U.S. SUPREME COURT WON’T HEAR PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY BALLOT ACCESS CASE
  5. U.S. SUPREME COURT WON’T HEAR TRUMP ELECTION CASES
  6. MORE LAWSUIT NEWS
  7. NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE BILLS
  8. BALLOT ACCESS BILLS
  9. FOUR RANKED CHOICE BILLS ADVANCE
  10. FUSION BILLS
  11. VOTER REGISTRATION TOTALS
  12. POLITICAL SCIENTISTS AGAIN FIND THAT CALIFORNIA TOP-TWO DOES NOT EASE POLARIZATION
  13. PEOPLE’S PARTY FILES IN CALIFORNIA
  14. VIRGINIA CONSTITUTION PARTY WILL PETITION FOR 2021
  15. MORE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL WRITE-INS
  16. MAINE SECRETARY OF STATE WON’T TALLY WRITE-INS FOR DECLARED WRITE-IN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
  17. TWO LEGISLATORS LEAVE REPUBLICAN PARTY
  18. DELAWARE CONSERVATIVE PARTY
  19. SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL

Georgia Voting Rights Groups File Federal Lawsuit Against Many Provisions of SB 202

Posted on by March 26, 2021
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On March 25, several Georgia groups that promote voter registration filed a federal lawsuit against SB 202, the omnibus election law bill that was signed into law on March 25. The New Georgia Project v Raffensperger, n.d., 1:21cv-1229. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge J. P. Boulee, a Trump appointee. Here is the Complaint.

The lawsuit does not challenge the implementation of ranked choice voting for overseas voters. The Complaint is somewhat vague about exactly what provisions are being challenged. It says on page four that the bill “drastically cuts the mandatory early voting period for runoff elections”, but the Complaint does not say that the date of the run-off itself is being challenged.

The case clearly challenges these laws: (1) absentee ballot requests must include a copy of I.D.; (2) the use of portable polling facilities, which even under the old law were only used in emergencies, such as the electricity going off at a polling place; (3) drop boxes for receipt of absentee ballots that are outside and available around the clock; (4) forbids the state from distributing absentee ballot requests that are unsolicited; (5) prohibits voter registration groups from returning absentee ballot applications; (6) forbids anyone other than polling place officials from offering water or food to voters standing in line waiting to vote; (7) forbids letting a voter use a provisional ballot at a polling place that is different from that voter’s own polling place, before 5 p.m.; (8) makes it easier for challengers to try to stop a voter from voting; (9) cut early voting hours for run-off elections.