For the second session in a row, the Texas Legislature failed to take action on the Texas Voter Choice Act, which would improve Texas’s overly burdensome and obsolete ballot access requirements for independent candidates and minor parties. Instead, the Legislature enacted and Texas Governor Gregg Abbott signed HB 2504, a bill that imposes additional filing fee or nomination petition requirements on minor party nominees.
CCD Founder Oliver Hall appears on the latest episode of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour to discuss how ordinary citizens can leverage an underused and often forgotten forum in our civic life -- small clai
On October 28, 2022, Federal District Judge James R. Sweeney, II denied Defendant Indiana Secretary of State Holli Sullivan's motion to dismiss CCD's constitutional challenge to Indiana's ballot acces
In a huge win for Texas voters, on September 29, 2022 Federal District Judge Robert Pitman struck down Texas's nomination petition procedures as applied to independents and new or minor parties. Judge
