from Ballot Access News
North Carolina Ballot Access Bill Passes House
On June 7, the North Carolina House passed HB 32, which lowers the number of signatures for previously unqualified parties, and independent candidates.
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from Ballot Access News
North Carolina Ballot Access Bill Passes House
On June 7, the North Carolina House passed HB 32, which lowers the number of signatures for previously unqualified parties, and independent candidates.
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From an opinion article by Daren Bakst in the Beaufort Observer:
When you go to the polls in North Carolina, you have less freedom to choose who you want to elect than citizens of virtually every other state.…
From an editorial by the News & Record, of Greensboro NC:
Voters deserve choices at the polls, but not too many, the N.C. Supreme Court said in a disappointing ruling last week.…
March 16, 2011
By Brian Irving
The N.C. Supreme Court has upheld the state laws that give North Carolina the second most restrictive ballot access requirements in the nation.…
On March 11, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled 5-1 that the petition to put a new political party on the ballot, 2% of the last gubernatorial vote, does not violate the State Constitution.…
by Thomas Hill
BURNET, Texas (Feb. 23) – Since I signed on as the campaign manager of the Lee Wrights for President Exploratory Committee I’ve taken some heat from some of my radical and anarchist friends in the libertarian movement, people I love and respect, for getting involved in electoral politics.…
via [email protected]:
CHARLOTTE (Feb. 2) – Free the Vote North Carolina announced yesterday the formation of the Free the Vote Coalition, an alliance of the state’s alternative political parties and several electoral reform groups, who have banded together to enact major ballot access reform this year.…
Reprinted in full, with permission, from Ballot Access News.
Government-printed ballots in the United States were first created in 1888, and almost from the start, opponents of new and minor political parties started manipulating the ballot access laws to keep certain parties off the ballot. …
Press release from the Wrights for President exploratory committee emailed to [email protected]:
BURNET, Texas (Nov. 9) – The most significant impact of the 2010 elections is neither a mandate for the Republican Party, nor a rejection of the Obama Administration, but in the continued growth of the Libertarian vote at the local, state and national level, said potential Libertarian presidential candidate R.…