28 July 2014
By Richard Winger
Ballot Access News
"On July 24, Matt Erard asked the Sixth Circuit to put him and four other
Socialist Party nominees on the Michigan ballot this year. The basis
for the case, Erard v Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, 14-1873,
is: (1) Michigan’s law discriminates against new parties, relative to
old minor parties, because the number of signatures is approximately
twice the number of votes for an old party to remain on; (2) Michigan
barred out-of-state circulators during most of the petitioning period
for this year’s election and only recently repealed the law, too late to
do much good; (3) language on the petition which discourages voters
from signing; (4) the six-month limit on petitioning."
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