Jan
08
2012
Source: Ballot Access News
A team of experienced attorneys and law school students have drafted this cert petition in Greene v Bartlett, a challenge to the North Carolina ballot access law for independent candidates for U.S. House. The petition will be filed in a few days. Read the text here. Read more »
Jan
08
2012
Source: Ballot Access News
The Virginia legislature still hasn’t drawn new U.S. House district boundaries, even though state law says that this job must be done by January 1 of any election year following a new census. Virginia law regarding petitions for the presidential candidates of unqualified parties, and independent presidential candidates, says that these petitions must carry the names of presidential elector Read more »
Jan
08
2012
Source: Ballot Access News
On January 9, U.S. District Court Judge William J. Haynes, Jr., will hear Green Party of Tennessee et al v Hargett, 3:11-cv-692. The hearing is at 3:30 p.m. in the federal courthouse in Nashville. The issue is whether the new ballot access law, passed in 2011, is constitutional. Judge Haynes had struck down the old law in 2010. The old law required 40,042 valid signatures by March of an election Read more »