Ballot Access News reports that the 11th Circuit Court has refused to invalidate Alabama’s March petition deadline for newly qualifying parties, and another article at Ballot Access News mentions that Alabama is among several Southern states with efforts underway to make primaries even earlier, which in Alabama would mean earlier party petition deadlines. Alabama ballot deadlines in practice do not apply to the establishment parties, and contrary to existing legal precedent the state has also been charging an exhorbitant fee for access to the registered voter list by parties trying to qualify for the ballot.
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2014/12/libertarian-party-of-ohio-lpo-finds-other-ways-to-make-a-difference/
Thanks! I changed the wording.
The Eleventh Circuit didn’t say the March deadline is constitutional. It just said the plaintiffs didn’t submit any evidence. The reason no evidence got into the record is that the first attorney who had the case missed a deadline, so the judge excluded all the evidence that we did submit. This issue isn’t foreclosed.