Filing Closes for Mississippi 2023 State Election

Posted on by February 3, 2023
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Mississippi elects all its state officers in November of the odd years just prior to presidential election years. The Secretary of State had posted a list of candidates. See it here. The filing deadline is very peculiar; it isn’t really rational to close filing on February 1 when the primary isn’t until August 8, 2023.

The Libertarian Party has seventeen legislative candidates, four for State Senate and thirteen for State House. That is the largest number of legislative candidates any party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, has run since 1923, when the Socialist Party was active in the state.

The Green Party has one legislative candidate this year. No other minor party has any candidates, and there are no minor party candidates for statewide office, although there is an independent running for Governor.

Delaware Still Isn’t Tracking Number of Registrants in Either No Labels Party, Nor Forward Party

Posted on by February 1, 2023
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Delaware is the only state in which the only path for a group to become a qualified party is by gaining enough registered voters. The requirement is registration membership of one-tenth of 1% of the state total. The Elections Commission website keeps a monthly tally of how many registered voters there are, not only in the qualified parties, but in unqualified parties that have shown they have some members and are worth keeping track of. However, Delaware Elections Commission still doesn’t list any figures for either No Labels, nor Forward.

See the February 2023 tally here. The Green Party is making slow progress toward regaining its qualified status. In December 2022 it had 734 members; now it has 741. It probably needs at least 770, although the requirement is a moving target and can’t be known until January 1, 2024. The law the percentage base is the number of registered voters as of December 31, 2023.

Delaware Agrees that Its Law, Requiring All Judicial Appointees for Most Types of Court to be Registered Republicans or Democrats, is Unconstitutional

Posted on by January 31, 2023
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On January 30, the government of Delaware filed papers in the lawsuit Adams v Carney, acknowledging that its law requiring all judicial appointees to most types of state court is unconstitutional, to the extent it requires them to be registered Democrats or Republicans. Here is the consent decree filed in Adams v Carney, 1:20cv-1680. Now the case doesn’t need a trial. Thanks to Joe Burns for this news.