The Peoria Journal-Star in this editorial deplores the Illinois ballot access law that kept independent David Gill off the ballot for U.S. House, 13th district. It expresses disappointment that Justice Elena Kagan refused to help him get on the ballot. At the end it even suggests that if ballot access laws continues to block free elections, revolution is possible. Thanks to several people who sent this to me.
On September 26, the Constitution, Green, and Libertarian Parties filed their brief in the Third Circuit, arguing that a county distribution requirement for statewide petitions is unconstitutional. Constitution Party of Pennsylvania v Cortes, 16-3266.
A U.S. District Court in Alabama will hold a telephone hearing in De La Fuente v Merrill on Tuesday, September 27. This is the case on whether the Secretary of State violated the constitution when he put Rocky De La Fuente on the ballot, and then at the end of August noticed De La Fuente had run in the Democratic presidential primary this year in Alabama, and removed him from the ballot.
It turns out that Alabama must reprint all the ballots it already printed anyway, because of an error noticed on September 26 concerning the language of a ballot measure.
On September 26, an Illinois state appeals court put Tyler Oberkfell back on the ballot as an independent for Madison County Board. See this story.
Last year when Jill Stein tried to crash the first general election presidential debate, she was arrested and kept in handcuffs for eight hours. This time, according to this story, she was merely “escorted out.”
