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A U.S. District Court has upheld the North Carolina election law setting the signature requirements for an independent candidate to get on the ballot for the U.S. House. Judge Graham C. Mullen denied a request for summary judgment by Bryan Greene, who sought to have the statute ruled unconstitutional. Greene argued that requiring an...
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A U.S. District Court judge said he expects to rule on a North Carolina ballot access case by August 20, according to Ballot Access News. Judge Graham Mullen heard oral arguments in Greene v. Bartlett yesterday. The case challenges the number of signatures needed for an independent candidate to qualify to run for U.S....
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Democratic and Republican party officials are upset that the scandals plaguing North Carolina state government have reached into the board of elections. They are questioning the judgment and professionalism of state elections officials after media reports of private plane flights paid for with taxpayer money and the high cost of printing ballots under a...
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The state Libertarian Party has scored a minor victory in its struggle to reform North Carolina’s restrictive election laws. The party is now legally entitled to participate in the state’s political parties financing fund as equals with the Democratic and Republican parties. The program allows taxpayers to decide that $3 of their state income...
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The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Libertarian Party et al vs. The State of North Carolina, et al Thursday, September 9 at 9:30 a.m. This is the party’s challenge to the constitutionality of North Carolina’s ballot access laws. The lawsuit filed in September 2005 claims North Carolina’s ballot access...
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The hearing in U.S. District Court challenging North Carolina’s ballot access law for independent Congressional candidates has been postponed until mid-August, according to Ballot Access News. The case was to have had its first court hearing July 28, but was postponed because the judge has a medical operation scheduled for that day. The lawsuit...
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A U.S. District Court judge will hear oral arguments July 28 in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s petition signature requirements for independent candidates for U.S. Congress. The lawsuit was filed by Bryan Greene in 2008. U.S. District Court Judge Graham C. Mullen will hear the case at 10:30 a.m. in the federal courthouse in...
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One of the benefits of a parliamentary democracy like the United Kingdom is the general openness to multiple parties. British voters don’t seem to get confused by more than two parties on the ballot. On the contrary, a third party helps expose corruption and malfeasance, as Dr. Mike Munger notes in this op ed...
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Most Tea Party participants believe they have the right to vote for anyone they choose in an election. Most also believe they have the right to run for office. Unfortunately, they are wrong. A state Superior Court judge said so in 2008 when the Libertarian and Green parties challenged the constitutionality of the state’s...
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Not all the people frustrated with special-interest control of the two party system are associated with the Tea Party movement. Nor do all disgruntled citizens necessarily oppose the health care legislation recently enacted by Congress. The State Employees Association of North Carolina is expressing its ire by trying to form a new political party....
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