July 2012 Ballot Access News Print Edition

Posted on by July 30, 2012
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Ballot Access News
July 1, 2012 – Volume 28, Number 2

This issue was printed on cream paper.

Table of Contents

  1. MONTANA PETITION DEADLINE STRUCK DOWN
  2. COLORADO IMPROVES DEADLINE
  3. LIBERTARIANS SUE MICHIGAN
  4. MASSACHUSETTS COURT NIXES STAND-INS ON PETITIONS
  5. D.C. CIRCUIT RULES THAT WRITE-IN VOTES NEED NOT BE COUNTED
  6. RALPH NADER LOSES BANK ACCOUNT CASE
  7. CALIFORNIA BILL TO MAKE BALLOT ACCESS MORE DIFFICULT
  8. NEW HAMPSHIRE CHANGES DEADLINE FOR NEW PARTIES TO NOMINATE CANDIDATES
  9. OHIO CREATES LATER FILING DEADLINE FOR DEMS, REPS
  10. NEW YORK BILL FOR CLEARER BALLOTS FAILS TO PASS
  11. CALIFORNIA ELECTION-DAY REGISTRATION
  12. CALIFORNIA PRIMARY
  13. 2012 PETITIONING FOR PRESIDENT
  14. PARTIES NOT ON PETITIONING CHART
  15. PEACE & FREEDOM CONVENTION
  16. GARY JOHNSON QUALFIES FOR MATCHING FUNDS
  17. SWP NOMINATES
  18. CALIFORNIA PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
  19. BUDDY ROEMER DROPS OUT
  20. AMERICANS ELECT WILL HAVE TWO CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS
  21. SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL

Several Cochise County, Arizona, Candidates Seek Americans Elect Nomination by Write-in at Primary

Posted on by July 29, 2012
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Americans Elect is a ballot-qualified party in Arizona, with its own primary. The primary will be held on August 28. Already it had been known that two candidates had filed for U.S. House in the Americans Elect primary. Now it appears some candidates are also seeking the party’s nomination for county office in Cochise County. They will run as write-ins in the primary. Each only needs one write-in vote to receive the nomination (as long as they defeat anyone else who wants the same nomination for the same office). The candidates have campaigned among all six of the Americans Elect registrants in Cochise County.

South Carolina Democrats Believe They Have Identified Three More Republican Nominees who Didn’t File Proper Paperwork Back in March

Posted on by July 28, 2012
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The South Carolina Democratic Party is suing to remove three Republican nominees for state legislature and county office from the November ballot, on the grounds that they didn’t file the correct Statement of Economic Interests back in March. Already approximately 250 candidates for state and local partisan office have been disqualified this year on these grounds. See this story.

Cindy Sheehan Will Accept Peace & Freedom Party Nomination for Vice-President, if Party Nominates Her for Vice-President and If Party Nominates Roseanne Barr for President

Posted on by July 28, 2012
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Cindy Sheehan will accept the Peace & Freedom Party nomination for vice-president, if the convention nominates her for vice-president and if the convention nominates Roseanne Barr for president. The convention is in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon, August 4. Sheehan, and also Rocky Anderson, and also Stewart Alexander, will attend the convention. Roseanne Barr cannot attend because she has an unbreakable commitment to work on that same day.

Arizona Top-Two Initiative Ballot Language Released

Posted on by July 28, 2012
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Assuming the Arizona initiative for a top-two open primary has enough signatures, it will be on the November 2012 Arizona ballot this way: Proposition _ (the number has not yet been assigned). Proposed Amendment to the Constitution by the Initiative Relating to Direct Primary Election Law. Replaces the Current Party Primary Election with a “Top-Two” Primary Election in which All the Voters, Regardless of Party Affiliation, Vote in a Single, Combined Primary and the Top Two Vote-Getters for Each Seat Advance to the General Election.”

This description of the measure is fair to both the proponents and the opponents. It is far more fair than the California initiative wording, which was on the ballot as “Primaries. Increases Participation in Primary Elections.”

The Goldwater Institute recently declared that it opposes the Arizona initiative, joining the Arizona League of Women Voters as an opponent. Thanks to Warren Severin for the news about the ballot description.