Arkansas Files Brief, Explaining State Interest in Requiring Qualified Minor Parties to Nominate All Candidates a Year Before the Election

By Richard Winger On December 11, Arkansas filed its brief in Libertarian Party of Arkansas v Martin, e.d., 4:15cv-635. The issue is a new law that says qualified minor parties (which nominate by convention) must nominate all their candidates for public office, except President and Vice-President, at least one year before the general election. No state has ever before required any type of party to nominate its candidates in the year before a November general election.
Arkansas major parties choose all their non-presidential nominees at their primaries on March 1, 2016, almost four months later. The state only cites one precedent …read more

Source:: http://ballot-access.org/2015/12/13/arkansas-files-brief-explaining-state-interest-in-requiring-qualified-minor-parties-to-nominate-all-candidates-a-year-before-the-election/