Earlier it was reported here that North Carolina Senator Jim Jacumin planned to introduce a bill, lowering the number of signatures for independent candidates. Senator Jacumin now plans to expand the bill so that it also lowers the number of signatures for minor parties. Furthermore, the bill will delete the requirement that declared write-in candidates must submit a petition of 500 signatures. North Carolina is the only state that requires declared write-in candidates to submit any petition. The logic for a petition to be a qualified write-in candidate is faulty. Petitions exist to keep ballots from being crowded with too many names, but write-in candidates’ names do not get printed on ballots, so they don’t make ballots too lengthy.
Posted to IPR by Paulie
I agree wholehardedly. This just creates a monopoly for those groups with money to comb the whole state for names.
Not allowing a writein vote disenfranchises some of us who don’t want to vote for one of two or maybe three candidates we don’t agree with, but can’t even vote none of the above, which allows winners to act as if they have a majority when they do not.