On April 12, the Texas Libertarian Party held its state convention in Temple, Texas, to choose nominees for the 2014 election, and to elect party officers. The convention had approximately 215 voting delegates. The greatest suspense was over the gubernatorial nomination. Kathie Glass, who was also the party’s gubernatorial nominee in 2010, won with 107(More)…
On April 11, both sides filed opening briefs in U.S. District Court in Arizona Green Party v Bennett, 2:14cv-375. The issue is whether the February 28 petition deadline is too early. The law says the petition is due 180 days before the primary, and that all parties, even newly-qualifying parties, must nominate by primary. Arizona(More)…
And are you making the same errors?
On April 8, the Tennessee legislature passed HB 2410, which says, “Any representative of the United Nations appearing without a treaty ratified by the United States senate, shall not monitor elections in this state. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.”
On April 11, filing for the Oklahoma primaries closed. That was also the deadline for independent candidates to file, even though independent candidates don’t run in the primary and go straight to the November ballot. Here is a link to the candidate list. For the first time since 1998, a minor party candidate for Governor(More)…
Will you remove your name from the harm?
On April 10, the Vermont Senate rejected amendments made by the House to S.86, the omnibus election law bill. One of the differences between the Senate version and the House version is the petition deadline for independent candidates. The Senate version of the bill moved that deadline from June to August, a significant improvement. But(More)…
See this very lengthy report in Businessweek on Marianne Williamson, independent candidate for U.S. House in California’s 33rd district.
By Richard Winger Source: http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/04/howie-hawkins-candidacy-announcement-for-green-party-gubernatorial-race-in-new-york-draws-media-attention/
By Richard Winger Source: http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/04/louisiana-house-utterly-revises-bill-on-independent-as-a-ballot-label-and-passes-bill/
