The Independent Voters Network, which was created by proponents of the top-two system, has this article by me on how the California top-two system injures voter choice in November, and how it could be altered to restore voter choice in November without reducing voter choice in the primary.
This news story says Drew Curtis, an independent running for Governor of Kentucky in the November 3, 2015 election, already has 6,000 signatures. The deadline is August 11. He needs 5,000 and says he expects to have at least 8,500 by the deadline.
Another independent candidate, who changed his name to Gatewood Galbraith, only as 2,000 signatures so far.
The only ballot-qualified parties in Kentucky are the Democratic and Republican Parties. The only other ballot-qualified parties Kentucky has had in the last 90 years have been the American Party 1968-1972, the Anderson Coalition Party 1980-1984, and the Reform Party 1996-2000. Kentucky is the only state in which the only office that counts toward party status is President. The law requires 2%, which sounds easy but is not, because it is so rare for any party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties to poll 2% for President.
Law Professor Vikram Amar writes here that the June 29 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Arizona State Legislature v Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission can help proponents of the National Popular Vote Plan. The decision helps that movement because now the state initiative process can be used to expand the list of states that have passed the plan.
This Philadelphia Inquirer editorial applauds the court decision of July 24 that struck down the state’s ballot access laws for minor parties and independent candidates. The editorial urges the state not to appeal.
Ballot Access News
July 1, 2015 – Volume 31, Number 2
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