Indiana Representative Ryan Dvorak (D-South Bend) has introduced HB 1130. It would decrease the number of signatures for an independent, or the nominee of an unqualified party, from 2% of the last Secretary of State vote, to 250 signatures. It also lowers the vote test from 2% of the vote for Secretary of State, to 2,500 votes. Dvorak is the Assistant Democratic Party leader in the House.
This Florida newspaper story says that in the newspaper’s home area, election data shows a significant number of voters are registering out of the Republican Party.
The Federal Election Commission had originally been scheduled to file a response to the presidential debates lawsuit on December 14, 2020. But it had asked the U.S. Supreme Court for more time, and the new deadline was to have been January 13. But now the FEC has again asked for, and received, another extension. Now the FEC response is due February 12.
The case is Level the Playing Field v FEC, 20-649. The co-plaintiffs include the Libertarian National Committee and the Green Party. The issue is whether the FEC is failing to enforce federal campaign finance law when it allows the Commission on Presidential Debates to exclude everyone except the Republican and Democratic nominees.
The Legal Marijuana Now Party is beginning the process of finding at least 28 more valid signatures, so as to be able to qualify for the Nebraska ballot. Earlier this month the Secretary of State had said it is short 28 valid signatures, but frequently when proponents of any type of petition do a more careful examination of the petition, they can find valid signatures that had been erroneously rejected.
Congressmember Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) will soon introduce a resolution for a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college.
See his press release. Thanks to the Institute for Public Accuracy for the link.
