This story summarizes all the activism in Maryland, in which minor parties and independent candidates have made a public case in favor of cutting the number of signatures needed for ballot access this year. But the state government has denied any relief, except to permit electronic signatures.
The Michigan Secretary of State has not appealed to the Sixth Circuit in Esshaki v Whitman, the case over whether primary petition signature requirements should be cut by 50%. Although technically there is still time for the state to appeal, realistically there is not.
The U.S. District Court Judge denied the state’s request for reconsideration on Saturday, April 25, and the state has not since then filed anything in the case.
On April 24, Rocky De La Fuente dismissed his federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump and against all the state Republican Parties that acted to keep him from qualifying for presidential primary ballots in those states. De La Fuente v Trump, u.s. District Court, D.C., 1:19cv-3753.
On April 27, the Colorado Supreme Court agreed to hear Warren v Griswold, 2020SA140. This is the case over whether the primary petition for statewide office, 10,500 signatures, should be eased in 2020 due to the health crisis. The lower state court had ruled that it should be lowered.
The Colorado Supreme Court wants Warren’s brief by April 30, Thursday.
Ballot Access News
April 2020 – Volume 35, Number 11
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