Ballot Access & Minor Parties
In 2000, the Center and Emery Cuti Brinckerhoff & Abady successfully represented Senator John McCain and his New York supporters in challenging ballot access laws for the New York Republican presidential primary. The ruling guaranteed the first fair Republican presidential primary in New York’s history.
The Center represented Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader in lawsuits in Idaho, Illinois, North Carolina, South Dakota, and West Virginia seeking to place Nader on the November 2000 presidential ballot. The Center argued that ballot access rules in those states have placed an unconstitutional and unfair burden on the candidate.
Green Party of New York State v. New York State Board of Elections
The Center represented the Green Party in its fight to protect the right of voters to register with the Party on voter registration forms and to prevent the state and county Boards of Elections from stripping more than 30,000 New York State citizens of their identity as Green Party members on registered voter lists.
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New York Election Law Found Unconstitutional by Federal Court
A federal court in Brooklyn yesterday struck down a residency requirement in New York States election law affecting independent candidates seeking to petition onto the ballot. The unconstitutional provision required that people collecting signatures on nominating petitions for independent candidates must live in the district for which the candidate is running for office.
Statement of Brennan Center’s Elizabeth Daniel on Decision In Campbell Vs. Bysiewicz
Today in U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, Judge Peter C. Dorsey modified his initial order of preliminary injunction in the case of Campbell v. Bysiewicz and ordered the Secretary of the State to put any qualified applicant on the primary ballot.
Unregistered? No excuse.
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