Kristin Davis, who is running for Governor of New York outside the five ballot-qualified parties, says her ballot label will be “Personal Freedom Party.” She will need 15,000 valid signatures, to be collected between June and August 2010. See this story. If she gets 50,000 or more votes for Governor, the Personal Freedom Party will become ballot-qualified in 2012 and 2014.
Kristin Davis, who is running for Governor of New York outside the five ballot-qualified parties, says her ballot label will be “Personal Freedom Party.” She will need 15,000 valid signatures, to be collected between June and August 2010. See this story. If she gets 50,000 or more votes for Governor, the Personal Freedom Party will become ballot-qualified in 2012 and 2014.
On March 1, the Minnesota Senate unanimously approved SF 2251, the bill to move the primary from September to August. The bill has the effect of moving the independent and minor party candidate petition deadline from early July to June 1, and it takes effect this year. The Governor has said he will sign the bill.
Jay Schneiderman has been a member of the Suffolk County, New York, county legislature since 2003. According to this story, he will run this year for U.S. House in the First District, without first seeking the nomination of either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party.
Schneiderman will seek the Independence Party nomination. He has been registered in that party since 2008. He is so popular, he was re-elected to the county legislature in 2008 with the support of all five ballot-qualified parties, Democratic, Republican, Independence, Conservative, and Working Families. Suffolk County is one of the state’s most populous counties; it comprises the eastern half of Long Island. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for this news.
On November 30, 2009, Ralph Nader filed a new legal attack on the Democratic National Committee, and other elements of the party, over its attempts to keep him off the ballot in 18 states in 2004. Nader had filed a similar lawsuit in Virginia in 2007, which had been transferred to the District of Columbia. But that case was dismissed in 2009 on the basis that D.C. has a 3-year statute of limitations. The U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, ruled that Nader should have filed the case a few months before he actually filed it.
So, Nader refiled the case in Maine state courts last year. Maine has a six-year statute of limitations. Now the Democratic Party has responded to the Maine lawsuit. The party argues various procedural points, for example, that the case has already been adjudicated, and that the Maine court lacks jurisdiction. Maine is one of the states in which the Democratic National Committee was active in challenging Nader’s ballot status. Nader is hoping that the Maine court will finally permit him to present evidence.
