October 2022 Ballot Access News Print Edition

Posted on by October 29, 2022
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Ballot Access News
October 2022 – Volume 38, Number 5

This issue was printed on white paper.

Table of Contents

  1. STUDY SHOWS MAGNITUDE OF MINOR PARTY AND INDEPENDENT VOTE FOR U.S. HOUSE
  2. ROBERTS COURT IS THE WORST FOR BALLOT ACCESS SINCE THE VINSON COURT
  3. ALASKA EASES DEFINITION OF QUALIFIED PARTY
  4. NEW MEXICO COURT REMOVES COUNTY COMMISSIONER FOR INSURRECTION
  5. BALLOT ACCESS WINS
  6. BALLOT ACCESS LOSSES
  7. MINOR PARTY AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE VOTE FOR U.S. HOUSE
  8. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CANDIDATES ON 2022 BALLOT
  9. ALASKA SPECIAL ELECTION
  10. TWO NEW HAMPSHIRE LIBERTARIANS WIN DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS
  11. NEW PARTY QUALIFIES IN DELAWARE
  12. FORMER NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR JOINS NO LABELS PARTY
  13. OREGON INDEPENDENT SPENT $897,000 TO OBTAIN BALLOT ACCESS
  14. SUBSCRIBING TO BAN WITH PAYPAL

Florida State Appeals Court Removes Local Initiative From the Ballot

Posted on by October 28, 2022
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On October 27, a Florida State Appeals Court removed a local initiative from the ballot in Orange County. Florida Association of Realtors v Orange County, 5D22-2277. The vote was 2-1. See this story. The initiative concerns rent control.

Because the ballots have already been printed and voting is already underway, it is impossible to physically remove the initiative from the ballot. Instead the votes will not be counted.

U.S. District Court Issues Final Order in Maine Libertarian Ballot Access Lawsuit

Posted on by October 28, 2022
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On October 26, U.S. District Court Judge Lance Walker issued a final order in Baines v Bellows, 1:19cv-509. It reiterates that it is unconstitutional for a state to eliminate a party’s registered members, just because it goes off the ballot. It also orders the Secretary of State to keep the Libertarian Party as a choice on voter registration forms. But it declines to put the party on the ballot for 2024. It notes that even though the court had extended the party’s qualified status for the 2022 election, no Libertarian ran for any federal or state partisan office in Maine in 2022.

Here is the final order.

Former Georgia Republican Legislator Advocates Removing Libertarian Party from Statewide Ballot

Posted on by October 27, 2022
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Bob Irvin, who was the leader of the Georgia House of Representative caucus between 1994 and 2000 (Republicans were in the minority in those years) now advocates that the Georgia legislature change the election law to remove the Libertarian Party from the statewide ballot. See his column, carried in the Insider Advantage, an on-line newsletter covering Georgia politics.

The current law was passed in 1986. It allows minor parties to be ballot-qualified for statewide offices if they poll approximately 2% of the vote for any statewide race. Other parties that also had qualified status for statewide offices are the Reform Party in 1996 and 1998, and the New Alliance Party in 1988.