The Socialist Equality has nominated a national ticket for the 2020 election. Joe Kishore for president, and Norissa Santa Cruz for vice-president. See here for the announcement. Thanks to James Mahoney for the link.
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West Virginia Delegate Pat McGeehan has introduced HB 2169. It eases the definition of qualified party, from a group that got 1% for Governor, to a group that got 1% for any statewide race or which has at least 5,000 registered members. Thanks to Jeff Becker for this news.
Ballot Access News
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Table of Contents
- U.S. DISTRICT COURT STRIKES DOWN MICHIGAN INDEPENDENT PETITION OF 30,000 SIGNATURES
- MINNESOTA PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY BALLOT ACCESS CASE
- TEXAS FILING FEE LAWSUITS
- HIGH COURT ACCEPTS CASE INVOLVING INDEPENDENT VOTERS
- HIGH COURT REJECTS CALIFORNIA BALLOT ACCESS CASE
- ARIZONA LIBERTARIANS ASK HIGH COURT TO HEAR ACCESS CASE
- NEW YORK PETITION TRIPLES
- PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY LAWSUIT NEWS
- RANKED CHOICE VOTING NEWS
- DEMOCRATS FILE ANOTHER BALLOT ORDER LAWSUIT
- U.S. DISTRICT COURT SAYS AMERICAN SAMOANS ARE CITIZENS AT BIRTH
- 2018 ELECTION RETURNS BOOKS PUBLISHED
- PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY CANDIDATES ON BALLOT
- 2020 PETITIONING FOR PRESIDENT
- MINOR PARTIES AND INDEPENDENTS IN STATE ELECTIONS, NOVEMBER 2019
- WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATOR SWITCHES FROM REPUBLICAN TO INDEPENDENT
- PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATOR SWITCHES FROM DEMOCRAT TO INDEPENDENT
- CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR SWITCHES FROM REPUBLICAN TO INDEPENDENT
- WRITE-IN CANDIDATE ELECTED TO VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
- PRESIDENT TRUMP DECLINES TO RUN IN AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PRIMARY
- SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL
On January 23, the lawsuit Tulsi Gabbard v Hillary Clinton was assigned to a judge, Valerie Caproni. Judge Caproni is an Obama appointee and before her service as a judge of the U.S. District Court in the southern district of New York, she was General Counsel to the FBI. The lawsuit charges that Hillary Clinton slandered Tulsi Gabbard last October, when Clinton said on television that Gabbard is a Russian agent. Clinton implied the same for Jill Stein.
On January 23, HB 216 was defeated in the House Privileges and Elections Committee. It would have provided that party labels be printed on the general election ballot for local partisan office. Currently many Virginia elections for local office are partisan, but there are no party labels on the ballot.
Also on January 23, HB 218 was defeated in the same committee. It would have provided that for statewide office, primaries must be used, instead of conventions.
On January 24, SB 126 passed the Senate on second reading, unanimously. It repeals the law that lets incumbents dictate to their party whether the party should use a primary or a party meeting for that particular office. That law was held unconstitutional last year.