CCD files a motion for preliminary injunction in Baines v. Dunlap, No. 1:19-cv-00509 (D. Me.), which challenges the constitutionality of Maine’s laws that make it practically impossible for non-wealthy citizens to form a new political party. #Maine #ballotaccess #thirdparties #preliminaryinjunction

CCD files new lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of Maine’s laws that make it practically impossible for non-wealthy citizens to form a new political party. The case is Baines v. Dunlap, No. 1:19-cv-00509 (D. Me.). #Maine #filing

CCD submits comments to Maine Legislature’s Joint Committee on Legal and Veteran Affairs, urging adoption of safeguards to protect candidates’ rights in proposed legislation regulating circulation of minor party and independent candidates’ nomination petitions. The proposed legislation would require petition circulators to swear that they “personally witnessed” the signing of each signature on a petition – an unnecessarily strict standard that invites unfounded but irrefutabl

CCD joins Emergency Application for a Stay of Enforcement, submitted to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Herbert J. Hoffman, independent candidate for United States Senate in Maine’s 2008 general election. On July 28, 2008, the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine denied Hoffman listing on Maine’s ballot, even though all parties conceded that he had submitted a petition with enough valid signatures, because he could not prove that three particular signatures had been s