Sentences with phrase «ballot access barriers»

He is founder and president of Free the Vote North Carolina, which is supporting a bill now before the legislature to dramatically lower the ballot access barriers for third parties and independent candidates..

Yes, some requirements are needed to keep the ballots from being clogged with too many candidates, but the very slightest ballot access barriers are sufficient for this purpose.

Kent Mesplay, appearing on NBC San Diego's «Politically Speaking», describes ballot access barriers for third parties, and suggests that Roseanne Barr and himself ought to consider working more closely to secure Presidential Delegates.

The 8th circuit said that the restriction is necessary to keep frivolous candidates off the ballot, because the primary vote test is the only ballot access barrier.

The October 2011 decision had said North Dakota needs a primary vote test for minor party candidates, because otherwise the ballot would become too crowded because there is no other ballot access barrier.

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That bill puts unconstitutional barriers between non-Republican or Democrat candidates and ballot access.

According to the story, Representative Hamilton didn't like people advocating instead for HB 494, which removes all mandatory petitions and lets the filing fee requirement be the only barrier to November ballot access for independents and minor party candidates.

«Just as we must elect representatives who will break down the barriers to political participation and to ballot access, we must expect better from our governor and all those we elect to office.»