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	Ballot access - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ballot access rules regulate the conditions under which a candidate or political party is entitled to appear on voters' ballots.
		Historically, there were generally no restrictions on ballot access in the United States until after the introduction of the so-called "Australian ballot" beginning in the 1880s.
		Proponents of more open ballot access argue that restricting access to the ballot has the effect of unjustly restricting the choices available to the voters and typically disadvantages third party candidates and other candidates who are not affiliated with the established parties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ballot_access (1392 words)

	Ralph Nader presidential campaign, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In some states, Nader was on the ballot as an independent candidate, while in a number of other states, Nader was deemed not to have met the requirements for ballot access, and was not on the ballot at all.
		In states where ballot access is more readily available by forming a new political party than by filing as an independent candidate, the Ralph Nader campaign chose to create the Populist Party.
		As of October 26, 2004, Nader was slated to appear on the ballot in 34 states and Washington, DC, and was definitely off the ballot in eight states (California, Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Virginia).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ralph_Nader_presidential_campaign,_2004 (617 words)

	3PT - Ballot Access
		Richard Winger is the publisher of Ballot Access News, the foremost publication in the United States on issues related to laws and regulations related to ballot access questions.
		Since strict ballot access laws frequently cannot be complied with, such laws make it difficult or impossible for the candidate's own supporters to vote for him or her.
		With severe ballot access laws draining their resources and keeping them off the ballot in approximately half the states, many felt that if they could not poll a decent vote anyway, they might at least have the satisfaction of being "pure" in doctrine.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /case/3pt/winger.html (1412 words)

	End the Two-Party Monopoly! by Ron Paul
		Even candidates able to comply with onerous ballot access rules must devote so many resources to simply getting on the ballot that their ability to communicate ideas to the general public is severely limited.
		Thus, ballot access is one of the few areas where Congress has explicit constitutional authority to establish national standards.
		The blatant attempt by a major party to keep Ralph Nader off state ballots demonstrates how restrictive ballot access laws are used to preserve a political monopoly, limit voter choices, and deny the rights of millions of Americans who support third parties and independent candidates an opportunity to effectively participate in the political process.
	www.lewrockwell.com /paul/paul194.html (369 words)

	Ballot Access Developments in 1994
		In that case, it may be possible to persuade Congress to include uniform ballot access laws, for Congress, in the same bill.
		If the Supreme Court rules that the state laws which keep long-term congressional incumbents off the ballot are unconstitutional on the grounds that they violate the First Amendment rights of political parties to decide for themselves whom they nominate, it will be easier to attack a different type of state ballot access in court.
		Ballot access defeats occurred in court in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, New York, North Carolina and Washington state.
	www.fairvote.org /reports/1995/chp6/winger.html (1404 words)

	Ballot Access
		The ballot access laws for new and minor parties to get on the ballot for Congress are so tough, that not since 1920 has any third party been able to place candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives on the ballot in even half of the districts!
		However, at least ballot access in those countries is equitable and fairly tolerant.
		Ballot access rules are the same for all parties in Great Britain and Canada.
	www.fairvote.org /reports/1993/winger.html (913 words)

	Boston.com / News / Politics / Presidential candidates / Ralph Nader / Four states deny ballot access to Nader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nader was denied access to Missouri's ballot on Wednesday after the secretary of state said his supporters failed to submit enough valid signatures in the battleground state.
		Nader appeared on the ballot in all four states in 2000 when he ran on the Green Party ticket, gaining about 3 percent in Maryland and 2 percent in the others.
		They have already shut Nader off the Arizona ballot by uncovering irregularities in his petition signatures and are contesting his standing in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
	www.boston.com /news/politics/president/nader/articles/2004/08/21/four_states_deny_ballot_access_to_nader (526 words)

	ConstitutionParty.com Article: The Ballot Access Hurdle for New Parties
		Ballot access restrictions in many states were made even tougher as a result of George Wallaceâs 1968 third party presidential race.
		Ballots are to permit the voters to vote for the candidates of their choice.
		Denying ballot access is permissible only if and to the extent that it is necessary as a means to further other legitimate state interests, including avoidance of the voter confusion that may result from the presence on the ballot of too many frivolous candidates."
	www.constitutionparty.com /news_print.php?aid=85 (1485 words)

	Election Law @ Moritz - e-Book (Part 2: Candidate Eligibility)
		The barriers to the ballot should be lessened either by courts, the individual states, or, most efficiently, by Congress setting specific ceilings on the amount of money or signatures that a candidate needs to get on the ballot.
		The model act, among other things, does away with the 'payment of fee' of ballot access that preferences wealthy candidates, significantly lessens the numerical requirement for petition signatures and past election results, and provides for the inclusion of candidates who have met other access requirements but were not nominated by their party.
		While he believes that some ballot access restrictions should continue to exist, they ought to be shown to have more than the tenuous connection to state interests than is currently required.
	moritzlaw.osu.edu /electionlaw/ebook/part2/candidate_ballot_bib.html (1819 words)

	OKBallotChoice.org - a coalition of Oklahomans working for FAIR laws that give voters genuine choices
		Oklahoma City - After being told that ballot access reform legislation will not be heard in committee this legislative session, Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform says the new rules put in place at the State House aren't delivering openness and accountability as promised by House Speaker Todd Hiett.
		Surrounding states all have much lower signature requirements for ballot access, 1% of voters from the last election in Texas, 10,000 in Missouri, 5,000 in Kansas, and 1,000 in Arkansas.
		If ballot access reform is not passed into law this legislative session, the issue may be taken out of the Legislature's hands.
	www.jmbzine.com /okballotchoice/news030305.htm (507 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Nader effort to gain Mass. ballot access is in doubt
		The effort to place Ralph Nader's name on the Massachusetts presidential ballot this fall is "in serious trouble," the state's top election official said yesterday, a sign that the third-party candidate's troubles have extended even to the generally liberal Bay State.
		Galvin attributed the problem to the campaign's failure to meet Tuesday's deadline to submit signatures for certification at local city and town halls because many of the papers were mailed too late and missed the legally established 5 p.m.
		Galvin, saying his office "bends over backwards" to get candidates on the ballot, said the charge is "a red herring." He noted that Massachusetts has one of the lowest thresholds for gaining ballot access for a presidential candidate.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2004/08/06/nader_effort_to_gain_mass_ballot_access_is_in_doubt (795 words)

	liibulletin: Primary Ballot Special Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On the ballot, the delegate-candidate's name is placed next to the presidential candidate's name for whom he or she has chosen to commit.
		Therefore, in order to be placed on the ballot in each district, a presidential candidate must get at least one delegate-candidate in each district to commit to him or her.
		In order to determine the extent of the burden on the right to vote, Judge Korman looked at the effects of the ballot access scheme as a whole and concluded that there was an unfair advantage to those candidates who did not have the support of the state Republican party.
	www.law.cornell.edu /background/ballot (2201 words)

	Newsletter: August 1998 - Ballot Access Summary
		Colorado recently passed a new, more liberal ballot access law requiring simply that a third party have 1,000 registered voters by the July 1 prior to an election in order to be on the ballot.
		Thanks to heroic work by Associate Director of Ballot Access David Shapiro, who personally registered 1100 Colorado voters in only 11 days, the Natural Law Party had 1600 registered voters by July 1 and is now running nine candidates on the ballot.
		The Michigan Natural Law Party ballot access office, established and overseen by David Shapiro and ably managed by Tom Haggarty, set a higher goal of 300 signatures from each of 10 districts.
	www.natural-law.org /news/newsletters/07_aug98/07_ballot.html (425 words)

	Nader Ballot Access in Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In state court the campaign will be suing to have their names placed on the ballot because of improper interference by state employees in the challenges to Nader-Camejo signatures on ballot access petitions.
		One of the goals of the Nader-Camejo campaign is to reduce the ballot access burdens on independent and third party candidates so that the voters will be able to have more choices and voices in future presidential campaigns.
		Ballot access laws are one reason why out democracy is anemic with a downward decline in eligible voters actually voting,” said Nader.
	www.gwu.edu /~action/2004/nader/nader082304pr.html (533 words)

	LP News December 1998 - Florida LP scores ballot access breakthrough with Revision 11
		Florida Libertarians are celebrating the victory of Revision 11, a constitutional amendment that will reform the worst ballot access laws in the nation -- and are already talking about running their first-ever slate of LP candidates for the 2000 election.
		The passage of Revision 11 is the "biggest victory for ballot access since 1968" when George Wallace won a Supreme Court decision affirming that the First Amendment protects the right to get on the ballot, said Richard Winger, publisher of Ballot Access News.
		Besides winning a major ballot access victory, the Florida LP gained other benefits from the Revision 11 campaign, said state party Vice Chair Tom Regnier.
	www.lp.org /lpn/9812-ballot-FL.html (741 words)

	Ballot Access—Ralph on the Ballot! - Nader for President 2004 - www.votenader.org
		Virginia??s ballot access drive was a proverbial cliff-hanger, with a mad dash to the election office complicated by a literal roadblock bringing 13,034 petitions in the door twenty minutes before the deadline.
		The Tennessee ballot access tale involves one elector's car and petitions being stolen, the use of a Cessna airplane in gathering and delivering signatures in the last days of the drive, and lots of leadership from Andy.
		Ballot access, while a challenge, should not only be seen as an opportunity to make our democracy more vibrant, it should also be seen as an opportunity to organize your neighborhood, your community and your state.
	www.votenader.org /ballot_access/index.php (1333 words)

	portland imc - 2004.07.21 - Ballot Access: Restriction on Democracy?
		Republican efforts to get Nader on the ballot may be selfish and hypocritical, but these efforts do enhance the ability of voters to vote freely for the candidate of their choice.
		Eugene McCarthy was kept off the New York ballot in 1976 by a Democratic Party challenge, and the Democratic National Committee intervened in legal proceedings in 1980 to try to keep John Anderson off the Massachusetts and North Carolina ballots....
		Prior to the 1890s, political parties were free to print and distribute their own ballots and, consequently, minor parties throughout most of the 19th century weren't faced with the kinds of discriminatory and burdensome ballot access laws that they encounter today."
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/07/293028.shtml (809 words)

	Ballot Access News
		Iowa ballot access for U.S. House candidates in primaries is severe.
		There are many surprisingly restrictive ballot access laws in this country, which the average voter has no knowledge or conception of; part of our purpose here (besides reporting on progress made) is to report on these restrictive ballot access laws so that more people are aware of them.
		Ballot Access 2000 'Breaking News' for short updates that came in too late for the printed version of the newsletter.
	ballot-access.org (3237 words)

	News 8 Austin \| 24 Hour Local News \| TOP STORIES
		The minimum number of signatures required (64,076) for ballot access equals 1 percent of all votes cast for president in the last presidential general election and reflects the importance of such office.
		Nader's campaign suggests that the state's deadline and required number of signatures is unconstitutional, there have been a number of successful efforts to gain ballot access in Texas as an Independent presidential candidate, including Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996 and Pat Buchanan in 2000.
		Further, the Texas process for independent or minor party candidate ballot access has been upheld by the courts on a number of occasions over the years.
	www.news8austin.com /content/top_stories?ArID=107988 (711 words)

	MGP Fight for Ballot Access - What Happened to LD 1376? by Nancy Allen
		History shows that Maine's ballot access law makes it impossible for a new or minor party to get a foothold.
		In 30 states at least one minor party has been qualified for 4 years, and in 39 states plus DC some minor party has remained qualified for four years without having to requalify, during the last thirty years.
		One of those legislative decisions not acted upon by the Maine Legislature was LD 1376, otherwise known as the Democracy Improvement Project for Maine, or "An Act to Improve the State's Democracy by Increasing Access to the Ballot and other Election Processes".
	www.mainegreens.org /electoral/party/BallotAccess/ld1376-1.htm (786 words)

	Nader Fails to Collect Enough Signatures in Texas; Files Lawsuit
		Still, the ballot setback was Nader's second in recent weeks and raised questions about the depth of his grass-roots support.
		That was short of the roughly 64,000 valid signatures needed to place his name on the ballot as an independent.
		Nader was the Green Part nominee in 2000 and qualified for the ballot in 43 states, including Texas, as well as the District of Columbia.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0511-03.htm (541 words)

	MdLP - Ballot Access
		allot access, or the ability to run candidates, is mission critical for a political party.
		Your rapid and dutiful assistance with ballot access - helping to pay off the "ballot access tax" permanently by 2006 - will ensure that parallel efforts in building the infrastructure to support successful campaigns and attracting, recruiting and training quality candidates can have our full attention from 2007 to 2010 and beyond.
		lan B - To avoid an "all our eggs in one basket" ballot access strategy, we are also collecting 10,000 signatures of registered voters on a party forming petition to be turned in January 2007 if the party is decertified for lack of the 35,000 registrations.
	www.md.lp.org /ballotaccess (603 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Nader wins Reform Party endorsement, ballot access in seven states
		He said Nader would decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept the Reform Party's ballot lines in each state, or try to gain ballot access through other means.
		The Reform Party said it also had ballot access in Wisconsin, but Kevin Kennedy, executive director for the state's elections board, said the party has not yet qualified for the 2004 presidential race.
		Nader has struggled to win ballot access in some early states, such as Texas, where a deadline passed Monday without him collecting enough signatures to appear on the ballot.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20040512-1405-nader.html (810 words)

	3PT - Ballot Access News
		Also, in 1982, when Alabama increased the number of signatures for new party ballot access from no petition, to a 1% petition, the U.S. Justice Department told the state on July 19, 1982 that the new law couldn't be implemented for the 1982 election.
		SB 330, which greatly improves ballot access for third party and independent candidates, passed the State Senate on March 19 by a vote of 31-15.
		Alaska, Louisiana and Washington state use the blanket primary, under which all voters receive the same primary ballot, a ballot containing the names of all the candidates of all the parties, as well as independent candidates.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /case/3pt/ban04-96.html (3866 words)

	Ballot Access News -- June 28, 1994
		If the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Arkansas congressional term limits law, which is a ballot access barrier, is unconstitutional, it will probably be much easier in the future for other restrictive ballot access laws for federal office, to be challenged in court.
		All three judges had a good record on ballot access cases, but this decision was a disappointment.
		HR 1755, the Penny bill to outlaw restrictive ballot access laws in federal elections for third party and independent candidates, has been mentioned by the League of Women Voters.
	www.ballot-access.org /1994/0628.html (3714 words)

	State: Minor parties push for equal access to ballot
		To get on the ballot, Segrue had to collect on petitions signatures from 3 percent of the registered voters in his district -- 2,663 names.
		The change to ballot access laws was suggested by the public and was the first proposal to get a unanimous vote by the state's Constitution Revision Committee, said Debby Kearney, the committee's attorney.
		In 1994, two Libertarian candidates for state representative were on the ballot, and in 1996, no minor political party candidates appeared on the ballot for the Legislature, said Connie Evans, bureau chief of election records for the Florida Division of Elections.
	www.sptimes.com /State/80398/Minor_parties_push_fo.html (1053 words)

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