November 2022 Ballot Access News Print Edition

Posted on by December 3, 2022
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Ballot Access News
November 2022 – Volume 38, Number 6

This issue was printed on gray paper.

Table of Contents

  1. SECOND CIRCUIT UPHOLDS NEW YORK BALLOT ACCESS
  2. ARKANSAS BALLOT ACCESS WIN
  3. PROCEDURAL WIN IN DELAWARE ON WHO CAN SERVE AS JUDGE
  4. TEXAS BALLOT ACCESS DECISION
  5. U.S. SUPREME COURT WON’T HEAR CASES THAT COULD HAVE EXPANDED RIGHTS
  6. TOP-FOUR LOSES IN WYOMING
  7. 2022 PARTY REVENUE FROM STATE INCOME TAX “CHECK-OFF”
  8. TOTALS FOR THE ENTIRE NATION 2000-2022
  9. LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT, NOVEMBER 2022
  10. DEMOCRATS LACK LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES
  11. LIZ CHENEY PREDICTS A NEW CONSERVATIVE PARTY
  12. FORWARD PARTY JOINS COFOE BOARD
  13. FLORIDA GAINS A NEW QUALIFIED PARTY AND LOSES ONE
  14. CONNECTICUT INDEPENDENT PARTY SURVIVES TWO CHALLENGES TO ITS 2022 NOMINEES
  15. SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL

Chase Oliver Declares for the Libertarian Party Presidential Nomination

Posted on by December 3, 2022
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On December 2, Chase Oliver declared his candidacy for the 2024 presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party. He was also the Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate last month. He debated his Democratic opponent, Senator Raphael Warnock, during that campaign. The Republican nominee, Herschel Walker, declined to appear. See this press release from Oliver.

Here is a Georgia news story.

California Libertarians Make Strong Showings in Non-Partisan Races in Hanford

Posted on by December 3, 2022
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The Libertarian Party had three members running for City Council of Hanford, California, on November 8, 2022. Two of them came close to winning. Frank Ramirez lost by 673-622 in Area B. Cheyne Strawn lost by 1,069 to 957 in Area E. The Mayor of Hanford, Kalish Morrow, is a Libertarian who was elected in 2020 and whose term expires in 2024.

Hanford is the County Seat of Kings County in the San Joaquin Valley, and has a population of 60,000.

Here is an article about the Hanford Libertarians.

Independent Candidates for State Legislatures have Been Consistently Winning More Seats in Last Decade

Posted on by December 2, 2022
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More independent candidates for the legislature have been getting elected during the last decade, compared to previous years. In every even-numbered general election, more than ten independent candidates have been elected in 2022, 2020, 2018, 2016, and 2014. But there are no years in which more than ten independents got elected to state legislatures at any time 1975-2010.

The highest number of independent winners since World War II was in 2012, when 17 were elected.

The number of winners in other recent years has been: 2022, thirteen (at least); 2020, fifteen; 2018, thirteen; 2016, twelve; and 2014, fifteen.

The main cause is probably the growing movement to eliminate straight-ticket devices. Fifteen states have repealed them 1965-2020. Only six still have the device: Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. Another cause is the switch from party-column ballot format to office-block format. Only five states still don’t use office-block: Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York.