On November 22, the Oregon government filed this brief in Linthicum v Wagner, 6:23cv-1624. This is the lawsuit over the Oregon law that won’t let legislators file for re-election if they have too many unexcused absences.
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Ballot Access News
November 2023 – Volume 39, Number 6
| This issue was printed on white paper. |
Table of Contents
- PRESIDENT BIDEN DEFENDS BALLOT ACCESS FOR MINOR PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES
- GEORGIA SERENDIPITY
- U.S. SUPREME COURT WON’T HEAR NEW YORK BALLOT ACCESS CASE
- SUPREME COURT WON’T HEAR NEW JERSEY BALLOT LABELS
- SUPREME COURT WON’T HEAR BLANKENSHIP LIBEL CASE
- TENTH CIRCUIT UPHOLDS 300 FOOT “NO POLITICS” ZONE
- SOME ANTI-TRUMP BALLOT ACCESS CASES HAVE TRIALS
- NEW HAMPSHIRE AND PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY DATES STILL UNDETERMINED
- HUGE FILING FEES FOR PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
- VOTE TO REPLACE SPEAKER McCARTHY REBUTS “OPEN PRIMARY” ADVOCATES
- PRESIDENT BIDEN WILL BE A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY
- THREE STATES HAVE NEVER HAD EASY BALLOT ACCESS FOR NEW PARTIES
- EASIEST BALLOT ACCESS FOR NEW PARTIES IN HISTORY
- 2024 PRESIDENTIAL PETITIONING
- ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR.
- FORWARD PARTY GAINS QUALIFIED STATUS IN TWO MORE STATES
- SOCIALIST PARTY NOMINATES
- CORNEL WEST
- LOUISIANA ELECTION
- POLL SHOWS INCREASED DESIRE FOR MORE PARTIES
- SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL
On November 10, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg ordered a trial in Curling v Raffensperger, n.d., 1:17cv-2989. The trial will begin January 9, 2024. This is the lawsuit filed in 2017 to force Georgia to use vote-counting machines that are more reliable than the machines currently in use.
This lawsuit is almost certainly the oldest pending election law case in the nation. Georgia has revised its machines since the lawsuit was filed, but there are still perceived problems. Here is the court order, 135 pages, which summarizes the case. One of the original plaintiffs is Ricardo Davis, a long-time activist with the Constitution Party.
In 2021, the Arizona legislature moved the independent presidential petition deadline from 60 days before the general election, to 80 days before the general election. The change was made in an omnibus election law bill, SB 1492.
This is the sort of legislative change B.A.N. tries to report, but this change was not noticed by me until recently. The 2024 presidential petition deadline is August 17, 2024.
On November 20, the Arizona Secretary of State filed this brief in No Labels Party v Fontes, 2:23cv-2172. This is the case over whether anyone may file in the No Labels primary to run for Congress or partisan state office. The law of Arizona says members of any qualified party may file in their own party’s primary. No Labels does not want anyone in Arizona or any other state running for Congress or state office. No Labels filed the lawsuit, seeking a court order to bar candidates from filing in its August 2024 primary for any office.
The Secretary of State’s brief repeatedly stresses that No Labels was free to have placed its eventual presidential nominee on the general election ballot using the independent petition method. Arizona is one of the 25 states that lets independent candidates choose a ballot label other than just “independent”, and the secretary stresses that the No Labels presidential candidate, with the independent procedure, would have been free to have “No Labels” next to his or her name.