Sentences with phrase «ballot access rules»

The courts generally do not consider ballot access rules for independent and third party candidates to be additional qualifications for holding office and there are no federal regulations regarding ballot access.

House bill 194, that is being challenged would put in place restrictive ballot access rules that make it harder for third parties to gain recognition by the state.

seems to have mastered the intricacies of state ballot access rules and is said to have qualified in more than 40 states and territories, more than any other candidate.

They're entirely up to the states and can pretty much be anything, although unfair ballot access rules can be ruled unconstitutional (this happened in Tennessee earlier this year).

Ballot access rules favor the two major parties.

These included campaign finance reform; election of judges; fairer personnel practices; liberalized ballot access rules; neutral contracting procedures; protection for whistleblowers; and forfeitures of pensions.»

Ballot access rules for independent and minor party candidates vary from state to state.

These are generically called nomination rules; the US calls them ballot access rules.

Since the Civil War, all states have chosen electors according to popular vote, but ballot access rules (for the general...

Young campaign spokesman Trevor Foughty accused the Democrats of playing politics and said they had more than enough signatures needed for ballot access rules.