Without the ability to collect signatures or canvass in-person, ballot initiatives risk not making it onto the ballot for voters to decide.
cycle and fights over voter access to the polls weave through the courts, candidate access to ballots has become just as difficult.
Groups around the country are pursuing similar lawsuits in hopes to see changes to the requirements to petition, whether it be removing an in-person notary requirement, lessening the number of signatures needed, or allowing for the collection of signatures electronically. "Ballot access restrictions are perhaps the most egregious obstacles facing independent and third-party candidates. Many states already require near-insurmountable signature requirements just to get on the ballot," Brendan Phillips, the co-chairman of the Green Party's ballot access committee, said in a statement.
The group also asked for a relaxation of qualification requirements in New Jersey and Vermont. The Green Party wrote a letter to NJ Gov. Phil Murphy asking to petition electronically, as well as in person. Murphy signed an executive order making the change. In Vermont, the legislature passed a bill which would eliminate petition requirements, among other things, after recommendation from the secretary of state's office.
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