Dear Rep,
I know with the session starting back in full swing today, you really don’t have time to read a lot of emails, so I’ll make this short.
Please vote for favorable passage of Rep Reese’s HB 1141 in the Elections subcommittee meeting today.
I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but right now anyone who seeks to run for a statewide office under any banner other than Democrat/Republican/Libertarian must collect signatures from 5% of the registered voters in the state -roughly 50,000 signatures- on a nomination petition, just to be allowed to be on the ballot. This is in addition to the same filing fee D/R/L candidates pay. This represents an undue burden that has RARELY – if ever – been met. Rep Reese’s proposal changes this requirement to the lesser of 5% or 5,000.
In other words, in races where the district has less than 100K there would be no change. This is pretty much everything lower than Congressional and Statewide races, meaning that only Congressional and Statewide races would be impacted at all by this change.
Thank you,
Jeff Sexton
Founder, SWGAPolitics.com
