The Macon Telegraph ran an article today discussing efforts in the Georgia Legislature to decrease the state’s onerous ballot access requirements. The article is actually not bad and quotes Richard Winger and Garland Favorito, both known to this site. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like any legislation to decrease the petition requirements will pass this year.
Local Article on Georgia’s Ballot Access Requirements
March 1st, 2012 · 5 Comments
Filed Under: Third parties, general
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1 Richard Winger // Mar 1, 2012 at 10:38 pm
You left off the most interesting part, from the end of the article. It says the Secretary of State’s proposal, which the Governor also backs, to cut the number of signatures 25% is dead just because a state legislator is insulted that people criticized the bill for not doing enough. He said, “Okay, if you say this bill isn’t worth anything, fine, you can’t have it.” Utterly petty. But it was foolish of a certain Georgia independent (who I won’t name) who has a bad temper, to have made that legislator angry.
2 Steve M // Mar 2, 2012 at 1:07 am
Richard.. name the legislator and post his email address and ask people to send him/her a pro or con email. also a link to your coverage would be useful.
3 Rob Banks // Mar 2, 2012 at 8:40 am
It’s probably not a good idea to aggravate this guy any more. He may try to make ballot access even worse next if people keep bugging him.
4 Richard Winger // Mar 2, 2012 at 10:28 am
#2, the name of the legislator is in that Georgia newspaper story.
5 Update on Georgia Ballot Access Legislation from VoterGa | Independent Political Report // Mar 3, 2012 at 10:25 pm
[...] of VoterGA is packed with information. It includes a mention of the Macon Telegraph article that we posted below, updates on legislation to decrease Georgia’s signature requirements and information on the [...]
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