Dan Whitfield, the only independent candidate who is petitioning in the U.S. Senate race in Arkansas, has asked the Secretary of State to reduce his petition requirement from 10,000 to 4,000 signatures. Alternatively, he is asking that the deadline be changed from May 1 to mid-June.
On March 18, Alabama postponed its run-off primaries from March 31 to July 14. Here is the statement from the Secretary of State’s website, which has much verbiage about free and fair elections, but which does not extend the petitioning period, nor does it reduce the number of signatures needed for independent candidates and minor parties.
On March 18, Missouri’s Governor postponed the local elections from April 7 to June 2. See this story. Thanks to Ken Bush for the link.
The Arizona Secretary of State’s website has election returns for the Democratic presidential primary. The other two ballot-qualified parties, Republican and Libertarian, didn’t have a presidential primary.
Click on the “view more” choice to see candidates other than Biden and Sanders.
North Dakota has the nation’s most restrictive ballot access law for minor party legislative candidates. No legislative candidate of a party other than the Republican and Democratic Parties has managed to get on the November ballot since 1976. The law requires that all qualified parties nominate by primary. At the primary, a legislative candidate must poll a large number of votes in the open primary. The numerical requirement is the same regardless of the party’s size.
But this year, he Libertarian Party will try to persuade enough primary voters to choose the Libertarian ballot in the 26th district, so that its candidate for State House, Mattie Richardson-Schmitz, can pass the vote test. See this story.
