April 2014 Ballot Access News Print Edition

Posted on by April 30, 2014
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Ballot Access News
April 1, 2014 – Volume 29, Number 11

This issue was printed on white paper.

Table of Contents

  1. TENNESSEE LAW ON PARTY RETENTION STRUCK DOWN
  2. NEW HAMPSHIRE BILL PASSES HOUSE
  3. OKLAHOMA BALLOT ACCESS BILL ADVANCES
  4. FOURTH CIRCUIT UPHOLDS MAY PETITION DEADLINE
  5. OHIO LIBERTARIANS FIGHT FOR ACCESS
  6. ALABAMA PROCEDURAL VICTORY
  7. KANSAS ALLOWS OUT-OF-STATE PETITIONERS
  8. ALABAMA COURT SAYS STATE NEED NOT VET QUALIFICATIONS
  9. SOCIALIST PARTY WINS NEW JERSEY CASE
  10. THIRD CIRCUIT HEARS PENNSYVANIA CASE
  11. ARKANSAS PETITION RULES STRUCK DOWN
  12. LEGISLATIVE NEWS
  13. LIBERTARIAN REGISTRATION UP BY 11% SINCE 2012
  14. 2014 PETITIONING FOR STATEWIDE OFFICE
  15. WRITE-IN CANDIDATE ELECTED TO PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE
  16. FLORIDA SPECIAL ELECTION RETURNS
  17. STRONG INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR OF WASHINGTON, D.C.
  18. BERNIE SANDERS TELLS “THE NATION” THAT HE MAY RUN FOR PRESIDENT
  19. LaROUCHE SUPPORTER WINS SPOT IN TEXAS DEMOCRATIC SENATE RUN-OFF
  20. IDAHO TO HOLD PRIMARY FOR CONSTITUTION PARTY
  21. SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL

SurveyUSA Ohio Gubernatorial Poll Includes Green Party Nominee

Posted on by April 30, 2014
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On April 30, SurveyUSA released a poll for the Ohio gubernatorial election. The results: John Kasich, Republican incumbent, 46%; Democrat Ed Fitzgerald 36%; Anita Rios, Green, 4%; undecided 14%. Scroll down to question four.

The decision of the poll to include that configuration is strange. Anita Rios won’t be on the November ballot unless she gets at least 500 write-in votes in the Green Party primary. And we don’t know if the Libertarian, Charlie Earl, will be on the November ballot until the 6th circuit rules on his ballot access case. That should come out at any time; the hearing was eight days ago.

U.S. District Court Strikes Down Wisconsin Government Photo-ID Law for Voters at the Polls

Posted on by April 29, 2014
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On April 29, U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Adelman, a Clinton appointee, found that Wisconsin’s 2011 law requiring voters at the polls to show certain types of government photo-ID violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and also violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Here is the 90-page opinion in Frank v Walker, 2:11cv-1128.

The law had not been in effect, because the Wisconsin Supreme Court had enjoined it from being used while several lawsuits in state court are also pending. The decision depends on evidence submitted at trial, and concludes that approximately 300,000 Wisconsin potential voters do not have the type of government photo-ID the law requires. The decision also finds that black and Hispanic voters are less likely than other voters to have the correct type of ID. Although the state government Department of Motor Vehicles provides state ID are no cost, the decision finds that those offices are almost entirely not open on weekends or evenings, and also notes that it is difficult for many individuals to get a state ID because they lack the documents needed to get a state ID. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.