Source: Ballot Access News
The Tennessee Senate had been scheduled to vote on SB 935 on April 14. This is the bill that changes ballot access for new and minor parties. However, the vote has been postponed until April 28.
Source: Ballot Access News
On April 13, Idaho Governor Butch Otter signed HB 351, which lets each party decide for itself which voters may vote in its primary. It is expected that the Democratic, Constitution, and Libertarian Parties will continue to let all voters vote in their primaries. Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
On April 13, the Oregon House Rules Committee held a hearing on HB 2442, the bill to tell the Independent Party (which has been ballot-qualified starting in 2006) that it must choose a new name. No one testified in favor of the bill, and there was a great deal of opposition. See this story from the Hankster.
Source: Ballot Access News
On April 13, the Alaska House passed SB 31, the bill that confirms that write-in votes are not necessarily invalid just because the voter misspelled the candidate’s name. Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
On April 14, the Missouri House Elections Committee added the provisions of HB 796 into an omnibus election law bill, SB 282, and passed the bill. Now the bill goes to the House floor. The Secretary of State supports the bill.
HB 796′s provisions repair a flaw in the state’s petition procedure for a new party to get on the ballot. Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
The Oklahoman, the largest newspaper in Oklahoma, has this story on the troubles that have befallen the ballot access bill, HB 1058. The bill easily passed the House last month, but stalled in the Senate after the state chair of the Republican Party, Matt Pinnell, asked the Chair of the Senate Rules Committee not to let the bill onto the Senate floor. Read more »
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