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[From Ballot Access News]

Oklahoma State Representative Ryan Kiesel (D-Seminole) has introduced HB 2206, to provide that the voters decide in November 2010 whether they want to make these changes to the election code: (1) lower the number of signatures for a new party from 5% of the last vote cast to exactly 5,000 signatures: (2) lower the vote test for a party to remain on the ballot from 10% to 1%; (3) let 17-year olds vote in a primary if they will be age 18 by the general election; (4) establish election day voter registration; (5) abolish the Straight-Ticket device; (6) lower the number of signatures for an independent presidential candidate from 3% of the last presidential vote to exactly 5,000, or let an independent presidential candidate on the ballot with no petition by paying a fee of $5,000; (7) establish early voting.

[From Ballot Access News]

Columbia Law School Professor Nathaniel Persily has this interesting article about the U.S. Supreme Court’s election law decisions in the terms covering the latter part of 2007, and all of 2008. Thanks to Rick Hasen%u2019s Electionlawblog for the link. The article is 31 pages. Especially interesting is the “Regulation of Political Parties” section of the article, which begins on page 23. It says, “The Rehnquist Court’s decisions concerning the rights of political parties tended to follow two themes. The first was a general disregard for minor parties’ claims either for ballot access or other associational rights. The second was robust protection for major parties’ rights.”

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