From Ballot Access News:
COFOE, the Coalition for Free & Open Elections, holds an annual board meeting. The minutes of the June 2014 meeting held in New York city are now posted at COFOE’s web page. COFOE is a loose coalition of most of the nation’s nationally-organized minor parties, and has existed since 1985.
Excerpts from the minutes:
The meeting was held at 1 p.m., on Sunday, June 29, in the meeting room on the Third Floor of 339 Lafayette Street, New York. The room was obtained for COFOE by the Socialist Party, which has its national office on the same floor of the same building. Attendees were:
Tom McLaughlin, Reform Party
Charles Sherrouse, Green Party
David Belmont, IndependentVoting (also known as CUIP)
Richard Winger, Libertarian Party
Alice Kelsey, Socialist Party
Greg Pason, Socialist Party
Elliot Traiman, Socialist Party
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Since the last meeting in July 2013, COFOE has funded two legal projects. We spent $850 to help pay the printing costs of an amicus curiae brief filed by former independent presidential candidate John B. Anderson and seven political science professors, in Libertarian Party of Michigan v Ruth Johnson. Unfortunately the U.S. Supreme Court did not hear the case. The issue was whether Michigan should have kept Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party presidential nominee, off the November 2012 ballot on the grounds that his name had appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot in February 2012 in Michigan. The lower courts had upheld his exclusion.
The other lawsuit COFOE funded was $1,000 for the Nevada Green Party challenge to the April 11 petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties. That case is proceeding in U.S. District Court.
Charles Sherrouse talked about Green Party ballot access projects and problems, including Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada. He also talked about hopes for a successful lawsuit against the Commission on Presidential Debates. He mentioned the party’s upcoming national convention, July 24-27, in St. Paul.
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Greg Pason talked about Socialist Party election law projects, including the recently concluded successful lawsuit to let New Jersey voters see the Socialist Party as a choice on voter registration forms, and the party’s recent national meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, held June 6-8, 2014.