Irregular Times has this story, revealing that Americans Elect has begun its petition to qualify as a party in California. The petition requires 1,030,040 signatures. California has two methods to create a new party, either that it persuade a number … Continue reading
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On March 10, the ACLU of Maine filed a lawsuit on behalf of Dennis Bailey, who was recently fined by the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices for creating an anonymous blog about Eliot Cutler. Cutler was a … Continue reading
On March 11, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled 5-1 that the petition to put a new political party on the ballot, 2% of the last gubernatorial vote, does not violate the State Constitution. Here is the 17-page opinion, and … Continue reading
The Tennessee Senate State and Local Government Committee will hear SB 935 on Tuesday, March 15, at 10:30 a.m., in room 12. SB 935 makes some very small improvements in the law on how groups qualify as political parties in … Continue reading
Gary L. Baker, an incumbent member of the Columbus, Ohio, School Board, will run for re-election this November as a write-in candidate. He failed to get on the ballot because the paid petitioner he hired to collect his signatures apparently … Continue reading