Currently, Cynthia Nixon is the Working Families Party nominee for Governor of New York. But the party will make a final decision on whether to keep her, or to replace her with Andrew Cuomo, on Wednesday, October 3. See this story.
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On Sunday, September 30, Rocky De La Fuente notified the Ninth Circuit that the Sixth Circuit had recently issued an order concerning Michigan’s independent statewide petition requirement. De La Fuente is in the Ninth Circuit, trying to overturn California’s independent presidential petition requirement of 178,039 signatures. The U.S. District Court in Los Angeles had upheld the California law.
The new filing to the Ninth Circuit contains the September 6, 2018 ruling of the Sixth Circuit, agreeing with the U.S. District Court that Michigan’s 30,000 signature requirement for statewide independents is too difficult.
On September 18, attorneys for the state of Georgia asked the Eleventh Circuit to dismiss the lawsuit Curling v Kemp, which was filed in U.S. District Court in 2017. The case concerns the legality of the state’s vote-counting machines, which do not leave a paper trail. The U.S. District Court had ruled on September 17, 2018, that the case is a valid case and discovery may continue. However, the U.S. District Court Judge had also said Georgia need not replace its machines in time for the November 2018 election, but she strongly hinted that they can’t be used beyond 2018.
In the Eleventh Circuit, the case is 18-13951. The state is also asking the U.S. District Court to stay any further proceedings, while the state tries to persuade the Eleventh Circuit to dismiss the case. The plaintiffs have responded by saying the request for a stay has no merit, and that they want oral argument on the motion for a stay.
It is odd that the state is fighting this case so hard, given that the Secretary of State says he wants to replace the machines in 2019 anyway.
Ballot Access News
September 1, 2018 – Volume 34, Number 4
| This issue was printed on white paper. |
Table of Contents
- U.S. DISTRICT COURT ENJOINS MICHIGAN PETITION REQUIREMENT FOR STATEWIDE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES
- TWO NORTH CAROLINA BALLOT ACCESS WINS
- MONTANA GREEN PARTY FILES FEDERAL BALLOT ACCESS CASE
- CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE BANS PAYING PER SIGNATURE
- ELEVENTH CIRCUIT SAYS ALABAMA BALLOT ACCESS CASE IS MOOT
- MASSACHUSETTS AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION
- NORTH CAROLINA DISTRICTS INVALID
- ALTERNATE VOTE SYSTEMS
- CONSTITUTION PARTY LOSES WEST VIRGINIA BALLOT ACCESS CASE
- ALASKA POLITICAL PARTY RIGHTS WIN
- NEW MEXICO ADDS STRAIGHT-TICKET DEVICE
- OTHER LAWSUIT NEWS
- BOOK REVIEW: INDEPENDENT POLITICS
- 2018 PARTY REVENUE FROM STATE INCOME TAX “CHECK-OFF”
- TOTALS FOR THE ENTIRE NATION THROUGH HISTORY, 2000-2018
- GARY JOHNSON BECOMES LIBERTARIAN NOMINEE FOR U.S. SENATE
- OHIO SPECIAL CONGRESS ELECTION
- DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUPERDELEGATES
- DAVID McREYNOLDS DIES
- ALASKA DEMOCRATS NOMINATE AN INDEPENDENT FOR U.S. HOUSE
- MAINE LIBERTARIAN COMMISSIONER
- TENNESSEE LIBERTARIAN PARTY WINS A PARTISAN RACE
- D.C. REPUBLICANS NOMINATE
- WASHINGTON TOP-TWO RARE EVENT
- SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL
Here is a news story about Jeffrey Siskind, an independent candidate for Attorney General of Florida. He is only the third person in the last 90 years to be on the ballot for that office, who is not a Republican or Democratic nominee. Florida law made it virtually impossible for anyone to run outside the two major parties (except for President) from 1931 through 1998. The law was eased in 1999. The only other two non-major party candidates for Florida Attorney General have been independent Jim Lewis, who got 3.8% in 2010; and Libertarian Bill Wohsifer, who got 2.9% in 2014.
Siskind says he is a centrist. He has in the past been both a Democrat and a Republican.