A Peace and Freedom Party member expects to attend to state convention in Sacramento August 2-3 (with preliminary social activities with the presidential candidates on the evening of August 1), and she expects to blog at this web site. Thanks to C.T. Weber for this news.
A Peace and Freedom Party member expects to attend to state convention in Sacramento August 2-3 (with preliminary social activities with the presidential candidates on the evening of August 1), and she expects to blog at this web site. Thanks to C.T. Weber for this news.
This news story in a daily newspaper in Pennsylvania features the ballot access reform bill recently introduced by Senator Mike Folmer.
The Pennsylvania petition deadline is August 1. The Green Party of Pennsylvania is hoping that the Reconstruction Party of Philadelphia will have secured enough signatures on the Green petition to give it a chance of succeeding. The state requires 24,666 signatures. Petitions are accepted if they have enough signatures on their face, unless somone challenges. The Libertarian and Constitution Parties are also turning in their petitions on August 1, and Ralph Nader is submitting his on the same day, at 11 a.m. Nader has already released a press release saying he will be turning in 53,000 signatures. The Libertarians expect to submit 47,000.
On July 30, a second challenge was made to Illinois ballot access law for minor party and independent candidates for U.S. House. Both the earlier federal lawsuit (Stevo v Keith) and the newer state court case argue that Illinois can have no state interest in requiring approximately 10,000 signatures for U.S. House candidates this year, since Illinois requires exactly 5,000 signatures for that office, for both minor parties and independents, in years following redistricting. The new state case is Druck v Illinois State Bd. of Elections, Cook Co., 2008-COEL-8.
