Wyoming Constitution Party Petition Lacks 388 Valid Signatures

Posted on by June 25, 2010
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The Constitution Party petition for ballot access in Wyoming was due June 1, and it needed 4,988 valid signatures.  The Secretary of State has checked the petition and says the party only submitted 4,600 valid signatures.  The raw number of signatures submitted was 6,276.

If the petition had succeeded, this would have been the first time the Constitution Party had been on the ballot as a party in Wyoming.  The Green Party has never been on in Wyoming.  The law requires a number of signatures equal to 2% of the last U.S. House vote.

The only ballot-qualified party in Wyoming now, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, is the Libertarian Party, which has been on continuously starting in 1994 because the Libertarian Party always meets the 2% vote test to remain on.

Kathleen Curry, Independent Colorado Legislator, Will Appeal Ballot Access Case

Posted on by June 25, 2010
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Kathleen Curry, Colorado’s only independent state legislator, who is being blocked from the November ballot, expects to appeal the adverse decision in Riddle v Daley.  Curry petitioned for a place on this year’s ballot as an independent, but even though the petition has enough valid signatures, she is barred from the ballot because she didn’t leave the Democratic Party until December 2009.

The law that bars her has already been relaxed by this year’s session of the legislature, but the new, more relaxed law doesn’t take effect until 2011.

Wendell Fant Won’t Run as Independent for U.S. House in North Carolina

Posted on by June 25, 2010
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On June 25, Wendell Fant, the first person in the history of North Carolina government-printed ballots to qualify as an independent candidate for U.S. House, said he will not run.  Therefore, he won’t be on the ballot.  The work and expense of collecting his signatures was borne by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  See this story.  Thanks to Jordan Greene for the link.

UPDATE:  ironically, a Public Policy poll released June 15 showed that Fant’s presence on the November ballot helps the Democratic nominee.

Georgia Court Hearing Set in Mary Norwood Petition Case

Posted on by June 25, 2010
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On Wednesday, June 30, a Georgia Superior Court in Atlanta will hear Norwood v Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, the case over whether to invalidate 9,000 signatures collected by independent candidate Mary Norwood.  She is running for President of the Fulton County Commission, a partisan post.  She needs approximately 22,000 valid signatures by July 13.

The petition form is provided by election officials.  It asks not only for the name and address of each signer, but for the county.  Norwood had asked permission, and received it, to make her own petition blanks with “Fulton” pre-printed in the county column.  She had found that, otherwise, some signers put “Yes” in the county column, and others put ditto marks.