By Richard Winger On January 19, the plaintiffs in Benezet Consulting v Cortes asked for injunctive relief. The issues in the case are three Pennsylvania ballot access restrictions for primary petitions: (1) the ban on out-of-state circulators; (2) the requirement that each petition sheet be notarized; (3) the ban on a voter signing two different petitions for the same office.
Primary petitioning in Pennsylvania starts on January 26 and ends on February 16, so the judge is likely to act on the request quickly. The same three restrictions were struck down as applied to general election petitions last year, and the …read more