Source: Ballot Access News
On July 1, Louisiana Goveror Bobby Jindal vetoed HB 533, an omnibus election law bill, entirely because one small part of the bill lets independent candidates have “independent” as their ballot label. See this story, which contains the Governor’s veto letters (scroll down to find HB 533). Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
The Populist Party ran candidates in the United States from 1984 through 1994, on a platform that suggested that whites are discriminated against by many government policies. The presidential nominees of the Populist Party were Bob Richards in 1984, David Duke in 1988, and Bo Gritz in 1992. The party’s newspaper was The Nationalist Times, published originally in Pennsylvania. The party ceased to exist but the newspaper continued, as a monthly. Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
On July 1, Timothy Quinn, an independent candidate for Mayor of Elyria, Ohio, this year, asked the Ohio Supreme Court to put him on the ballot. The county Board of Elections kept him off because he voted in this year’s Democratic primary. Elyria has partisan city elections. See this story.
Ohio has no law saying that independent candidates must not have voted in a major party primary. Read more »
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