{news} MAJOR BALLOT ACCESS VICTORY! One step closer in CT Fairness!

[Tim McKee]

April 1st, 2005 
SB 1233, to set up a procedure by which a group can turn itself into a qualified party, passed the Connecticut Joint Administration and Election Committee on March 31. If the bill becomes law, a group that submits a petition signed by 1% of the last vote cast (currently 15,788 signatures) could then nominate by convention for any partisan office it wished, without further petitioning. The petition also has a distribution requirement. 

More details to follow- must of course pass both house and be signed by Gov. Rell.

We have done major drives like this in the past. Nader 96, 2000 as Green Party candidate and over 12,000 signatures for Independant Nader in 2004. (Cobb was on automatically because of past Green (Nader, 96,2000) success)

But this is for ALL OFFICES!!

Special thanks to Mike DeRosa, CT CO-CHAIR who worked this committee hard!!

 

 





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