Reason has this interview with former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, covering a wide range of topics. Toward the end he says he will announce his candidacy for the Libertarian presidential nomination once the Republican race is sorted out. Thanks to Bob Johnston for the link.
NMPolitics.net is an on-line newspaper about New Mexico politics. The page has this commentary by Rick Lass, about top-two systems. Bob Perls, a former Democratic legislator has been advocating that New Mexico switch to a top-two system. Lass discusses that idea. Lass is a Green Party activist who, in 2008 polled 43.7% of the vote as a Green nominee for Public Regulation Commission.
On November 19, oral arguments were held in Ravalli County Republican Central Committee v McCulloch, 6:14cv-58. The issue is Montana’s law requiring all qualified parties to nominate candidates for public office in open primaries. See this description, which suggests that U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris is skeptical of the Republican Party’s case.
UPDATE: here is a second story, although it doesn’t have as much detail as the first story.
Law Professor Derek Muller here writes that New Hampshire law, if read carefully, does not allow the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission to decide presidential qualifications. Professor Muller says if the New Hampshire law were followed faithfully, Secretary of State Bill Gardner should make the decision. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
This subject is in the news because the Ballot Law Commission is set to decide whether Ted Cruz should be on the Republican presidential primary.
The Washington Times has this article about the progress of various Republican presidential candidates in getting on primary ballots. None of the candidates discussed in the article are required to ever get more than 5,000 valid signatures.
