[EL] I was hoping to get a thread going with my info about idiotic Texas deadlines

[Vince Leibowitz]

It was done by the Legislature. I can't remember when they upped the requirements, but I want to say it was in the last ten years. 

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On Dec 16, 2011, at 6:27 PM, "Larry Levine" <larrylevine at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Does “let’s protect our governor” sound like it might be a reason? Was this done legislatively or by executive fiat?
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> Larry
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> From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Winger
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 4:23 PM
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> Subject: [EL] I was hoping to get a thread going with my info about idiotic Texas deadlines
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> When I sent a link to my article about the ludicrous Texas petition deadlines to this list, I was hoping to stimulate others to comment.
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> Just to reiterate, Texas now requires an independent presidential candidate to submit a petition on May 14, but an independent candidate for any other office is not due until July 5.  Furthermore, the independent presidential petition needs about 40% more signatures than the independent petition for any other statewide office.
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> To my mind, there is no conceivable argument for why Texas should require independent presidential candidate petitions almost two months before independent petitions for other office, especially given Anderson v Celebrezze saying that states must go easier for independent presidential candidates than for candidates for other office.  Does anyone disagree with me?
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> The mainstream media, even in Texas, seems utterly oblivious to this, even though there is so much media attention this year to the idea of independent and new political party presidential candidates.  I am disappointed that no one seems to want to talk about this.
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> Richard Winger
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