Connecticut State Senator Wins Ballot Access Lawsuit Involving Democratic Primary

Posted on by July 11, 2016
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On July 8, Connecticut State Senator Edwin Gomes won a lawsuit in state court in Bridgeport. The court ordered that he be placed on the Democratic primary ballot, for the August 9 primary. Under Connecticut law, anyone who has at least 15% of the delegates at a party endorsement meeting is entitled to run in the primary. Gomes received that level of support at a recent Democratic Party meeting, but the officials who ran the meeting failed to notify the Secretary of State that Gomes had that much support.

Gomes won his last election to the Connecticut Senate as the nominee of the Working Families Party, but he is a registered Democrat and wanted the 2016 Democratic nomination.

June 2016 Ballot Access News Print Edition

Posted on by July 10, 2016
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Ballot Access News
June 1, 2016 – Volume 32, Number 1

This issue was printed on blue paper.

Table of Contents

  1. U.S. DISTRICT COURT GRANTS INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AGAINST MAINE DEADLINE FOR NEW PARTIES
  2. OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR SIGNS BALLOT ACCESS
  3. COURTS IN FOUR STATES WILL DECIDE BALLOT ACCESS SOON
  4. MAJOR PARTIES FIGHT TO ALTER PRIMARIES
  5. LEGISLATIVE NEWS
  6. CALIFORNIA LAWSUITS OVER PARTY LABELS
  7. BOOK REVIEW: PRIMARY SCREENOUT
  8. 2016 PETITIONING FOR PRESIDENT
  9. LIBERTARIAN PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION
  10. LIBERTARIAN PRESIDENTIAL VOTE
  11. LIBERTARIAN VICE-PRESIDENTIAL VOTE
  12. ANTI-TRUMP REPUBLICANS MAY RUN DAVID FRENCH FOR PRESIDENT
  13. LIBERTY UNION NOMINATES
  14. AMERICAN PARTY NOMINATES
  15. NEW PRESIDENT OF AUSTRIA IS A GREEN PARTY MEMBER
  16. CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS CROSS-ENDORSE A GREEN PARTY NOMINEE
  17. SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL

Green Party: Stein Won’t Simply Step Aside to Let Bernie Run

Posted on by July 10, 2016
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Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s campaign said Saturday that it has asked repeatedly to meet with Bernie Sanders to discuss collaborating to “build a progressive revolution” in the United States, but it denied ever having Stein step aside to give Sanders the presidential nomination.

“We have said we were willing to discuss a variety of cooperative approaches, including the possibility of creating a united ticket,” campaign co-chair Gloria Mattera said in a statement through email. “At no point, however have we simply offered that we would just step aside and give the presidential nomination of the Green Party to Senator Sanders without serious discussions of issues and strategies.”

However, Sanders is expected to end his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination within days. Earlier this week, Stein told The Guardian newspaper that she would be willing to step aside and let him take her place.

But on Saturday, Mattera’s statement indicated that the decision over the eventual nominee ultimately rests in the hands of the delegates at the Green Party’s convention, being held in Houston from Aug. 4-7, and most delegates are already pledged to Stein.

Read more at Newsmax

South Dakota Constitution Party Uses State Convention to Nominate Candidates that Normally Must Use Primary

Posted on by December 21, 2016
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The Constitution Party is ballot-qualified in South Dakota. However, under the law, the state won’t recognize party nominees for Congress or legislature who are nominated by convention, even though all parties can nominate for certain other partisan offices by convention. Nevertheless, on June 9, the Constitution Party did hold its state convention and it did nominate a potential candidate for U.S. Senate and one for the legislature.

The pending ballot access lawsuit will determine if the party’s nominees for those two offices will be printed on the November ballot. The lawsuit challenges the March 29 petition deadline for parties who want to be able to nominate for Congress and state legislature. Already the judge in the case has suggested that there is no state interest in requiring newly-qualifying parties to nominate by primary for those offices. She said that last month when she denied the state’s motion to dismiss the case.

The Constitution Party’s convention action is very beneficial to the pending lawsuit. If neither plaintiff political party were to hold conventions and nominate for such offices this year, that might delay the lawsuit outcome.

Pennsylvania Election Officials Agree that 5,000 Signature Petition for Statewide Minor Party and Independent Candidates Applies to All Groups, Not Just the Three Parties in the Lawsuit

Posted on by July 9, 2016
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On July 7, Pennsylvania election officials said that the 2016 statewide petition requirement (5,000 signatures) for minor party and independent candidates will be in effect for every group and candidate, not just the three parties that were involved in recent litigation (Constitution, Green, and Libertarian).