Category Archives: ballot access

Must-Read Story Out of Florida: “Evidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark money”

November 12, 2020, 7:40 amballot access, chicaneryRick Hasen

Local10 News: Why would candidates for Florida Senate seats do no campaigning, no fundraising, have no issue platforms, nor make any effort to get votes?Local 10 News has found evidence to suggest three such candidates in three Florida Senate district… Continue reading

“An accidental candidate looms as wild card in Katko-Balter race for Congress”

October 9, 2020, 7:39 amballot accessRick Hasen

Syracuse.com: Steve Williams agreed to be only a temporary placeholder on the Working Families Party line until Democrats chose a candidate – ultimately Balter – in the June 23 primary election.But now he’s stuck on the ballot, even though he’s… Continue reading

“How Republicans Are Trying to Use the Green Party to Their Advantage”

September 22, 2020, 9:51 pmballot access, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: With Mr. Trump trailing Joseph R. Biden Jr. in most national and swing-state polls, Republicans are again trying to help third parties that may appeal to Democratic voters and siphon off votes from Mr. Biden. This is taking place… Continue reading

Breaking: Justice Kagan Denies Another Supreme Court Petition to Put Green Party on the Ballot in Montana

September 14, 2020, 4:02 pmballot access, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The case is Davis v. Stapleton. Justice Kagan did not ask for a response on this one. This is the second Green Party case from Montana denied by Justice Kagan.

Breaking: In 4-3 Vote NOT Along Party Lines, Wisconsin Supreme Court Keeps Green Party Off the Ballot (Link to Opinion), Which Should Allow Ballots to Be Printed (But Kanye West Appeal Perhaps Coming and Delaying Things Further?)

September 14, 2020, 2:54 pmballot accessRick Hasen

You can find the opinions and dissent here. Conservative Justice Bruce Hagedorn joined the court’s liberals to form a majority. One of the dissents refers to this case as “perhaps one of the mostimportant cases in a judicial lifetime.”… Continue reading

“Green Party’s legal team has ties to GOP and also represents counties that don’t want party added to ballot”

September 14, 2020, 10:38 amballot accessRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The legal team trying to get the Green Party’s presidential ticket on the state’s ballot has close ties to Republicans and also represents Wisconsin’s counties —a group that doesn’t want the Green Party to prevail because… Continue reading

Are Republicans Financing the Effort to Get the Green Party Restored to the Ballot in Wisconsin?

September 12, 2020, 1:06 pmballot accessRick Hasen

WaPo: Hawkins suggested in an interview that Trump supporters had helped the Green Party ticket with its legal claim before the state Supreme Court. The party’s petition was filed by attorneys from the Milwaukee-based von Briesen & Roper law firm,… Continue reading

Without Noted Dissent, Arizona Supreme Court Keeps Kanye West off AZ Ballot for President

September 8, 2020, 3:08 pmballot accessRick Hasen

Arizona’s Law reports.

Arizona Lawsuit Seeks to Keep Kanye West Off State Ballot Because He is a Registered Republican But Is Running as an Independent (In Violation of State Law Per Plaintiffs)

September 2, 2020, 10:33 amballot access, UncategorizedRick Hasen

Read the complaint.

New York: “Federal Court Upholds Higher Ballot Threshold for Parties”

September 1, 2020, 8:11 pmballot access, third partiesRick Hasen

State of Politics: A federal judge on Tuesday upheld stricter ballot standards for political parties, dealing a blow to the Working Families Party and the SAM Party’s efforts to challenge the measure. The new law, which had been paired… Continue reading

Major Republican firm Holtzman Vogel is Representing Kanye West in His Attempt to Get on the Wisconsin Ballot [UPDATE: Apparently This Was a Clerical Error and Firm Not Representing West]

September 1, 2020, 2:40 pmballot accessRick Hasen

In case anyone still had doubts about what this was all about. Kanye West's address in his court filing to get on the ballot in Wisconsin is the law office of Jill Holtzman Vogel, a Republican state senator from Virginia… Continue reading

“Kanye West campaign files lawsuit to try to get on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin”

August 28, 2020, 5:41 pmballot accessRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The campaign for rapper Kanye West filed a lawsuit Friday against the state Elections Commission in a bid to get on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin this November. The 12-page suit was filed in Brown County Circuit… Continue reading

“Republican National Congressional Committee Sues to Remove Most Texas Libertarian Congressional Candidates from Ballot”

August 27, 2020, 8:37 amballot accessRick Hasen

BAN reports.

“Montana Secretary of State Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Stay Order of Montana Supreme Court that Removed Green Party from Ballot”

August 25, 2020, 7:26 amballot access, third partiesRick Hasen

BAN reports. [Application to Justice Kagan.]

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