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Courts back two capitalist parties??? ballot monopoly
??By Terry Evans
Vol. 83/No. 42
November 18, 2019
Confirming its role as a guardian of the capitalist rulers??? two-party
system, the black-robed Supreme Court justices continue to refuse to
hear any cases that involve opening up greater access to the ballot for
third-party candidates. However, they do hear ??? and uphold ??? cases
brought by either Democrats or Republicans to further restrict getting
on the ballot.
On Oct. 7 it rejected hearing an appeal of a decision by the 11th
Circuit Court of Appeals that overturned a lower court decision lifting
onerous petitioning requirements in special elections in Alabama.
Since 1992 the Supreme Court has cursorily rejected review of all 60
election law cases brought by parties other than the Democrats or
Republicans.
Restricting the franchise for working people is a bipartisan effort.
Republicans have promoted state laws that make it harder for people to
register, or vote early, laws aimed at African Americans. Both parties
have backed laws that push deadlines for filing by third parties back
further and further. To field a slate of third-party candidates in the
November 2020 campaign in California, you have to gather 65,000 valid
signatures and have filed by Oct. 2, 2019!
Democrats are pushing measures that effectively throw opponent parties
off the ballot. New York state will hear a proposal backed by Gov.
Andrew Cuomo and the state???s Democrats that will jack up the number of
votes a political party needs to get to retain a spot on the ballot for
gubernatorial contests by five times ??? from 50,000 to 250,000. Their
target is the Working Families Party ??? which always back Democrats, but
sometimes promotes challengers against nominees inside the state party
organization it considers not to be progressive enough.
And many workers are directly barred from voting. Thirty-two states
impose restrictions on former felons right to vote, excluding millions
of workers from the franchise.
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