Arizona Capitol Times has this story about the Green Party’s petition to regain party status. It is lengthy and has interesting details that other news stories don’t have. For instance, it quotes Green Party leaders as saying that if their petition succeeds, the party will then do a registration drive in order to stay on the ballot, much as the Libertarians have done in Arizona for twenty years.
Cenk Uygar, founder of The Young Turks media channel, has announced that he will challenge Joe Biden for the Democratic Party nomination for Presisdent.
Here is the story written by David Weigel on semafor.com.
Thanks for Political Wire for the heads up!
Here is the story from the New York Times. It may be behind a paywall.
In the October 13, 2023 edition of The Wall Street Journal, former US Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman asserts that intensive polling in eight swing states indicates that No Labels will not be a spoiler presidential ticket and actually has a path to win the White House.
Here is his column.
Independent Joe Davis last week was denied a spot on the upcoming November 7 ballot for Mayor of Bloomington, Indiana, because he gathered new voter registrations while petitioning but did not turn the registrations in for processing at least seven days before turning in the petitions that the newly registered voters had signed. Because of this, many signatures of newly registered voters were deemed invalid, and Davis ended up with fewer signatures than he needed to make the ballot. Davis v Morales, Monroe County Circuit Court, 53C08-2308-MI-1910.
Here is a story on this matter.
In 1970, a 3-judge U.S. District Court struck down a New York law that said newly-registered voters could not sign a petition. Socialist Workers Party v Rockefeller. The U.S. Supreme Court summmarily affirmed that decision, so it should be binding on the entire nation. 400 US 806.
