Thursday, June 4, 2009
News Pye calls on Handel to ease third-party ballot access
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Forgive the Yogi Berra-ness of the following statement, but Libertarian Jason Pye is the person I disagree with most often with whom I agree most often.
Ex. Last night, Pye asked his readers to stop judging Republican Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel through our usual "elephant vs. donkey" filter. Instead, he wants us to consider Georgia's restrictive ballot rules; rules that protect the duopoly of Democrats and Republicans against challengers. He's got a great point.
Pye:
You cannot truly have a fair and open election process until all parties are given the same access to the ballot that Democrats and Republicans enjoy. For those of you who don’t know, Georgia has some of the most restrictive ballot access laws in the United States, behind Oklahoma and West Virginia, with the latter taking steps to improve ballot access this year [. . .] a relaxation of ballot access laws must be passed by the legislature, an endorsement of the idea from the supervisor of elections in the State of Georgia could go a long way and possibly could even open up some dialogue with legislative leaders.
If ballot access and election verification are subjects you find interesting, I recommend you journey into the Pye-hole for a couple minutes.
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