U.S. District Court Rules that Judicial Watch and True the Vote Have Standing to Sue Indiana Over Alleged Voter Registration List Errors

Posted on by December 12, 2012
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On December 10, U.S. District Court Judge William Lawrence ruled that Judicial Watch and True the Vote have standing to sue Indiana state elections officials. Those two organizations believe the Indiana voter registration rolls are not properly maintained, and that many names on the rolls should not be there. The organizations point out that in twelve counties, there are more registered voters than the census finds adult residents.

The case is Judicial Watch v King, southern district, 1:12-cv-800. The decision says the Indiana members of those organizations have standing because if their allegations are true, their Indiana members who are registered voters are being injured.

Maine Counts Write-ins for Ron Paul

Posted on by December 12, 2012
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Maine is one of the few states in which a slate of presidential elector candidates, pledged to a write-in presidential candidate, can file for write-in status without the consent of the presidential candidate himself or herself. A group of presidential elector candidated pledged to Ron Paul filed, and Maine has now released the write-in totals. The write-in vote for Ron Paul last month was 2,035 votes, which is .29% of the total presidential vote.

Other write-in presidential candidates in Maine were Rocky Anderson, who received 62; and Jill Reed, who received 30. The four presidential candidates who were on the ballot were President Obama, Mitt Romney, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein. Johnson received 9,352; Stein received 8,119.

California will also release a write-in total for Ron Paul, but has not done so yet. Chances are his California write-in total will be at least 25,000. Other declared write-in presidential elector slates in California are Stewart Alexander, Rocky Anderson, Steve Durham, Virgil Goode, James Harris, Sheila Tittle, and Jerry White.

New Hampshire doesn’t have a write-in declaration of candidacy procedure. However, the Secretary of State decided to tally the Ron Paul votes, and in that state, Paul was credited with 1,374 write-ins, which is .19% of the total vote cast for President.

Virginia Bill Introduced to Ease Presidential Candidate Ballot Access, in both Primaries and General Election

Posted on by December 12, 2012
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Virginia State Senator Richard H. Black (R-Great Falls) has introduced SB 690, to lower the number of signatures for presidential candidates from 10,000 signatures to 5,000 signatures. The bill also reduces the number of signatures needed in each U.S. House district from 400 to 200. The bill would apply both to presidential primary candidates, and candidates of unqualified parties and independent presidential candidates petitioning for the November ballot.

Virginia Delegate Mark Cole (R-Fredericksburg) has introduced HB 1346, which lowers the number of signatures to 5,000 for presidential primary candidates, but not general election presidential candidates.

New York Times Will Publish Dialogue on Whether a New Political Party is Useful

Posted on by December 12, 2012
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The print edition of the New York Times for December 12 has this letter by Teed Rockwell, advocating that U.S. voters support a new political party. The Times chose this letter, not only to be printed, but to be the subject of a readers dialogue. The Times will publish some reader responses to the Rockwell letter on Sunday, December 16.