The number one item on SWGAPolitics.com’s 2010 Legislative Agenda is Equal Ballot Access, and I’ve been pushing hard for new members in the Facebook group recently.
It is not enough to simply push for members in a Facebook group though. To be viable as an idea, proposals need to be put forth to correct the wrongs you see. A week ago, I put on the group a discussion topic for “best approaches” on this issue.
In particular, I mentioned:
1) Definitions of “Party”
2) Amount of Petition Signatures
3) Pool of Petition Signatures (voters in last election vs all registered voters, etc)
4) Additional races where candidates above X percent grant party full ballot access (currently only GAGOV and POTUS count – and NATIONAL vote is counted for POTUS, rather than Ga vote)
5) Lowering X percent from #4 (currently at 20%)
I now have bill proposals for each of these, though one of these bill proposals is an active project of a friend and the version I have may not be the most current version. Below the jump I have brief descriptions of the proposals I have, as well as links to the PDF files so you can see them for yourself.
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