The National Conference of State Legislatures has this useful chart showing when each state’s legislature convenes in 2021. People who care about ballot access in their own state should be now seeking legislators willing to introduce bills to improve the … Continue reading
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The U.S. Supreme Court has now docketed Kopitke v Bell, no. 20-897. This is the case over North Carolina’s independent presidential petition deadline of March 3. The Fourth Circuit upheld it last year, even though in 1983 the U.S. Supreme … Continue reading
Ballot Access News December 2020 – Volume 36, Number 7 This issue was printed on white paper. Table of Contents ALASKA VOTERS PASS RANKED CHOICE VOTING BUT SIMULTANEOUSLY INJURE BALLOT ACCESS MASSACHUSETTS RANKED CHOICE VOTING LOSES PUERTO RICO BOOK REVIEW: … Continue reading
Every state except Arkansas, Hawaii, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and South Dakota prints write-in space on November ballots for president. But the 42 states (plus D.C.) that include write-in space have very different policies on whether any … Continue reading
The American Solidarity Party is now on the board of the Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE), which was founded in 1985 and which is a very loose coalition of most of the nation’s nationally-organized minor parties, along with … Continue reading